Abu Abdullah Zanjani
Abu Abdullah Zanjani ( Persian ابوعبدالله زنجانی; * December 15, 1891 in Zanjan ; † July 2, 1941 ) was an Iranian Shiite lawyer, Koran scholar and author. He taught at the theological college in Tehran .
He is the author of a History of the Koran ( Tārīkh al-Qurʾān ) which is considered to be the first independent work on the history of the Koran by a Muslim scholar. It was first published in 1935 in Cairo in Arabic and was also translated into German. It is mainly based on Sunni sources. The work of Abu al-Qasim Sahab was translated into Persian.
Works (selection)
- History of the Koran ( German (1a , b) ; [1] (English)
literature
- Sajjadi, Seyyed Jaʿfar; Pak, Nacim: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Zanjānī. In: Encyclopaedia Islamica. Editors-in-Chief: Wilferd Madelung and, Farhad Daftary . Brill Online, 2013 ( online excerpt )
Web links
- ابوعبدالله زنجانی - lib.eshia.ir
- The history of the Qurʿan ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), ( Islamic Center Hamburg )
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Morteza Karimi-Nia: The Historiography of the Qur'an in the Muslim World: The Influence of Theodor Nöldeke. In: Journal of Qur'anic Studies 15.1 (2013): 46–68 ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abu Abdullah Zanjani |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Zanjānī; 艾布 • 阿卜杜拉 • 赞 加尼; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Zanjānī; Abu Abdullah Zanjani; 'Allamah Abu' Abd Allah al-Zanjani; Abu 'Abd Allah al-Zanjani |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian legal scholar, Koran scholar and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zanjan |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1941 |