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Abstract

Joseph schecht was a leading western scholar on Islamic Law. He
has very famous books on his credit. His common Link Theory is
remarkable and widely accepted theory among the western Islamists.
Schacht argues in this theory that Muslim authorities deliberately
invented and placed traditions ascribed to the Prophet of Islam for
their own purposes. However, Schacht evolved this theory upon
incomplete and biased studies of Islamic resources. This article
submits certain factual examples which cut the base of his theory
hence render it rather unacademic argumentantion attempt, special to
western Islamists.