The Interdisciplinarity Between The Narrative Analysis of Superstition and The Science of Hadith In The Encyclopedia of Arab Narrative by Abdullah Ibrahim

The present study seeks to clarify interdisciplinarity between the narrative analysis of superstition and the science of hadith, as articulated in the Encyclopedia of Arab Narrative by Abdullah Ibrahim. This research is guided by a fundamental question: To what extent has interdisciplinarity between the narrative analysis of superstition and the science of hadith facilitated methodological integration? The methodological approach employed in this study is the criticism of criticism, with analytical tools derived from the works of Taha Abdul Rahman. The results proved that there is interdisciplinarity between the narrative analysis of superstition and the science of hadith across two dimensions: content and mechanisms. Regarding content, Abdullah Ibrahim concluded that there is an overlap between hadiths and superstition, stemming from selective interpretation of Arab heritage. In terms of mechanisms, Abdullah Ibrahim employed the mechanism of definition, the mechanism of induction, the mechanism of communication, the mechanism of attribution, and the mechanism of consideration. Despite the importance of employing these mechanisms in the analysis in accordance with the Arab-Islamic cultural and pragmatic context, Abdullah Ibrahim in some of his narrative analyses deviated from this context, influenced by the concept of superstition in the West, and influenced by the concepts of historicism and humanisation of sacred texts, and the analysis was partly in conflict with this context that affects the narrative phenomenon, which may indicate that interdisciplinarity here did not achieve methodological integration.22/9/2024Received :