Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
1155 E 58th St
Chicago
IL
60637
ABOUT
Garrett is a doctoral candidate in the University of Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. His dissertation examines ways in which the idiom of oral hadith transmission is used in the construction of authority in post-classical Sunni scholarship. Before coming to the University of Chicago, Garrett lived in Cairo for several years where he completed a MA in Arabic studies at the American University in Cairo. Garrett’s research interests include issues related to constructs of religious and scholarly authority in the Islamic tradition, hadith, the Arabic manuscript tradition, Islamic reform movements of the twentieth century and Islamic mysticism in the Early Modern and Modern periods. In addition to his dissertation work, Garrett is preparing an edition of three previously unpublished manuscripts of the Moroccan hadith scholar ‘Abd al-Hayy al-Kattani.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Islamic Thought
Islamic Law
History Of Religion
Education
Geographic Areas of Interest
Islamic World
Egypt
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Persian (intermediate)
Abstracts
Children Should Hear and Be Heard: Hadith Attendance Registers and the Role of Children in Medieval Hadith Transmission
