Muhammad Mustafa Azami

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Muhammad Mustafa Azami (born 1932 in Maunath Bhanjan in Uttar Pradesh ; † December 20, 2017 in Riyadh ) was a Muslim Indian - Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and university professor with a focus on hadith studies .

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Muhammad Mustafa Azami was born in Mau (Maunath Bhanjan) in Uttar Pradesh in 1932 . He graduated from the Dar ul-Ulum Deoband Islamic University in Deoband (Uttar Pradesh, India ) in 1952 and then obtained an MA in 1955 from the al-Azhar University in Cairo (Egypt). He has taught Arabic to non-native speakers and directed the National Public Library of Qatar . In 1966 he earned his PhD at the University of Cambridge (England) with a dissertation on studies on early hadith literature ("Studies in early ḥadīth literature"). After his graduation, he moved to Saudi Arabia over and taught until the Sharia -College the Umm al-Qura University in Mecca and then at the College of Education of King Saud University in Riyadh . In 1980 - one year after Fuat Sezgin - he received the International King Faisal Prize in Islamic Studies for his research on hadith. He writes in Arabic and English . In 1981 he was naturalized in Saudi Arabia. He headed the Department of Islamic Studies at King Saud University in Riyadh. He conducted research at the University of Michigan ( Ann Arbor ), the University of Colorado Boulder , the St Cross College of Oxford University . He has been visiting professor of Islamic studies at Princeton University and honorary professor at the University of Wales, Lampeter . He is the author of various writings and was also active as an editor. The hadith theories of Islamic scholars such as Ignaz Goldziher , David Margoliouth and Joseph Schacht were critically examined by him. Azami has also discovered and reviewed ancient hadith manuscripts such as: B. Sahih ibn Chuzaima and Kitāb as-Sunan al-kubrā of An-Nasāʾī .

The British orientalist A. J. Arberry of Pembroke College in Cambridge wrote the foreword to his Studies in Early Hadith Literature :

“No doubt the most important field of research, relative to the study of Hadith, is the discovery, verification, and evaluation of the smaller collections of Traditions antedating the six canonical collections of al-Bukhari, Muslim and the rest. In this field Dr Azmi has done pioneer work of the highest value, and he has done it according to the exact standards of scholarship. The thesis which he presented, and for which Cambridge conferred on him the degree of Ph.D., is in my opinion one of the most exciting arid original investigations in this field of modern times. "

“The most important research area related to the study of hadith is undoubtedly the discovery, verification and evaluation of the smaller collections of traditions that preceded the six canonical collections of al-Bukhari , Muslim and the rest. In this area, Dr. Azmi has done pioneering work of the highest value, and to the exacting standards of scholarship. The work he submitted, for which Cambridge gave him a Ph.D. is, in my opinion, one of the most exciting sober original investigations in this area in modern times. '"

- Arthur John Arberry : Studies in Early Hadith Literature

Publications (selection)

  • Studies in Early Hadith Literature: With a Critical Edition of Some Early Texts (his dissertation at Cambridge University) - online text of the 1978 edition ; also Indianapolis, Ind .; American Trust Publ .; 1992
  • Studies in Hadith Methodology and Literature. ( Online 1 , 2 ) (a general introduction)
  • The History of the Qur'anic Text from Revelation to Compilation: A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments. UK Islamic Academy. ISBN 1-872531-66-0
  • On Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. Riyadh: King Saud University 1985 ( digitized version )
  • Dirasat fi al-Hadith an-Nabawi wa Tarikh Tadwini
  • Kuttāb an-nabī
  • Manhaj an-Naqd 'ind al-Muhaddithin
  • al-Muhaddithun min al-Yamamah

published works

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Ulama Hadits Syeikh Mustafa al A'zami Wafat di Riyadh , Hidayatulla , accessed April 5, 2018
  2. ↑ English-language website of the International King Faisal Prize (KFIP) - accessed on May 13, 2017
  3. ^ Studies in Early Hadith Literature (1978, Foreword , February 16, 1967) - Available online

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Azami, Muhammad Mustafa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muḥammad Muṣṭafā al-Aʿẓamī; Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami; Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami; Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami; Muḥammad Muṣṭafā al-Aʻẓamī; Mohammad M. Azmi; Mohamad Mustafa Al-A'Azami; Zeeshan Chaudri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-Saudi Arabian scholar of Islam and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Mau , Uttar Pradesh
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 2017
Place of death Riad