Studies in Islamic Traditions and Literature

1. "Muslim attitudes towards prostration (sujūd). I. Arabs and prostration at the beginning of Islam and in the Qur’ān” / 2. "Muslim attitudes towards prostration (sujūd). II. The prominence and meaning of prostration in Muslim literature" / 3. "Traditions and controversies concerning the sujūd al-Qur’an in ḥadīth literature"  / 4. "The thanksgiving prostration (sujūd al-shukr) in Muslim traditions" / 5. "Muslim Traditions against Secular Prostration and Inter-religious Polemic" / 6. "Ḥadith and Muslim dietary norms: some traditions on the goodness of meat and the permissibility of horse meat" / 7. "‘Two rivers are believers and two are disbelievers’. A sacred river geography in a saying attributed to Muḥammad?" / 8. "Islamic traditions regarding the use of fabrics and clothing" / 9. "Inna Allāh yubghiḍu al-balīgh min al-nās: a study of an early ḥadīth" / 10. “Methods and contexts in the use of Hadiths in classical tafsīr literature: the exegesis of Q 21:85 and 17:1” / 11. "The staff of Moses transforming into a snake in Islamic exegesis and traditions" / 12. "Modern Islamic exegesis and the rejection of the Isrā'īliyyāt: the legends about the staff of Moses transforming into a snake" / 13. "At cock-crow: some Muslim traditions about the rooster" / 14. "‘I just came to visit some relatives’. The wolf in Joseph’s story" / 15. "Origin and use of the term isra’iliyyat in Muslim literature", in Arabica, 46 (1999), 193-210

Roberto Tottoli is Professor of Islamic studies at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Italy. His fields of interest are early Islamic traditions and literature and the Qur’an in European history.