Muhammad Mustafa al-A'zami

Muhammad Mustafa al-A’zami was born in Mau in British India and studied at Deoband, Al-Azhar and Cambridge, where he received his PhD in 1966. He was a professor and department head at King Saud University in Riyadh and received the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 1980. He is best known for work on hadith and for critiquing Western orientalist theories, notably those of Goldziher and Schacht. His later book on the Qur’anic text defends its early written preservation and compares it with biblical transmission. He died in Riyadh in December 2017.

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