" النصّ القرآني الخالد عبر العصور" از ڈاکٹر مصطفی اعظمی کا منہجی واسلوبیاتی مطالعہ

A Methodological Study of “Al Nas al Qur’ani al Khalid Ibar al Usoor” by Dr. Mustafa A’zami

Abstract

Muhammad Mustafa Azami was a renowned scholar of Quran and Hadith literature in this century. He was a great researcher of old manuscripts of Muslim academic heritage. After acquiring traditional Islamic knowledge he visited abroad and got his doctoral degree from Cambridge where he learnt the methodologies of Orientalists. While staying among the Western scholars he critically analyzed their ways of research on Islam. His contribution toward Quran and Hadīth is very prolific which made his a unique personality of Islam. His most significant work of them is his work on Quran is his magnum opus History of the Qur’anic Text from Revelation to Compilation that academically reviews the collection process of Quranic codification and its historical process while dealing with the orientalists’ assumption on its authenticity. Afterwards, Azami also prepared a unique volume on Quranic recensions and produces a book titles “Ageless Qur’an Timeless Text: A Visual Study of Sura 17 Across 14 Centuries & 19 Manuscripts” which empirically elucidates that there is no room of doubt in text of the Holy Quran rather it has identical as if it was revealed of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by Almighty Allah. The article has been targeted to trace out the style of Azami in collating various Quranic codices available in the world and the results drawn.