Muhammad Mustafa Azmi

Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami (1930 – 20 December 2017) was an

In 1980, he was the recipient of the King Faisal International Award for Islamic Studies.^[5] Much of A'zami's work focused on challenging Western scholarship on hadith literature, especially on highlighting the fact that there was already intense literary activity on hadiths during the lifetime of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, at his encouragement.^[6]

Literary works

• Studies in Early Hadith Literature, His doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge
• Hadith Methodology and Literature, a general introduction to the subject
• The History of the Qur'anic Text from Revelation to Compilation: A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments
• On Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence
• Dirasat fi al-Hadith an-Nabawi^[7]
• Kuttab an-Nabi
• Manhaj an-Naqd 'ind al-Muhaddithin
• al-Muhaddithun min al-Yamamah

His forthcoming works include The Qurʾānic Challenge: A Promise Fulfilled and The ʾIsnād System: Its Origins and Authenticity.

Edited works

• al-ʿIlal of Ibn al-Madini
• Kitāb at-Tamyiz of
  Imam Muslim
• Maghāzi Rasulullah of
  Urwah ibn Zubayr
• Muwatta Imam Malik
• Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah
• Sunan ibn Majah

Death

Muhammad Mustafa Azmi died on 20 December 2017, aged 87.^[8]

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