Social network analysis of Hadith narrators

Sumaira Saeed, Sania Yousuf, Faiza Khan, Quratulain Rajput

Abstract: The narrative networks are formed by the chains of narration from one person to another. Although many social networks have been explored, however, the narrative networks remain underexplored due to the lack of the availability of data in the form of network. This paper focuses on constructing the narrative network from the historical Middle Eastern Hadith book of the 9th century. The purpose of this research is to explore the central narrators, interaction patterns, and the structural properties of such networks via some classical approaches and proposed a narrator ranking method. Further, the tool has been developed for the analysis of Hadith narrative network which will assist researchers and historians.