Tahdith
/tɑːˈdiːθ/noun
An Arabic-derived term meaning modernization or updating, and in Islamic scholarship, the narration or transmission of a hadith.
Did you know?Tahdith comes from the same Arabic root as hadith, whose basic sense is “new” or “recent” before it came to mean a report or prophetic tradition.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Semitic
Proto-Semitic
*ḥ-d-ṯ
“A reconstructed root associated with newness, freshness, or something occurring recently”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
ḥadīth
“New, recent; later, a report, account, or narrated tradition”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
ḥaddatha
“To make something new, cause an event, or relate/tell something”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
taḥdīth
“Making new, renewal, modernization, or the act of narrating”
Medieval Islamic scholarship
Arabic
taḥdīth
“The narration or transmission of reports, especially hadith traditions”
Modern English
English
tahdith
“A scholarly transliteration used for modernization, updating, or hadith transmission”