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Muslims, Their Beliefs and Practices 

A. Rippin.

New York: Routledge, 2001. 346 pages. 

Muslims, Their Beliefs and Practices is the revised 2nd edition of a previous 

work with the same title divided in two volumes: Vol. I, "The Formative 









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on the fabrication of prophetic traditions. According to I. Goldziher, J. 
Schacht and G.H.A. Juynboll, these reports were a late artificial elaboration 

gradually projected back to the Prophet's era. These opinions appear to be 

still admitted by a majority of scholars. However, I have missed some refer­
ence to W. Hallaq, H. Motzki, D. Powers, and U. Rubin, who have recently 

questioned them. 

Delfina Serrano Ruano C.S.l.C. 

lnstituto de Filologia, Departamento de Estudios Arabes 
Madrid. Spain