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name: Muhammad Mustafa al-ʿAzami
about: Muhammad Mustafa al-ʿAzami, a leading contemporary hadith scholar recognized for his critique of Orientalist studies of hadith, was born in India in 1932 and educated at Darul Uloom Deoband. He went on to study at Al-Azhar University (M.A., 1955) and the University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1966). He is Professor Emeritus at King Saud University in Riyadh and chaired its Department of Islamic Studies. In 1980, he was the recipient of the prestigious King Faisal International Award for Islamic Studies. He has also served as curator of the National Public Library, Qatar, and acted as Visiting Scholar, Fellow, and Professor respectively at numerous institutes, including Umm al-Qura University, Princeton University, and St. Cross College at the Univ Muhammad Mustafa al-ʿAzami, a leading contemporary hadith scholar recognized for his critique of Orientalist studies of hadith, was born in India in 1932 and educated at Darul Uloom Deoband. He went on to study at Al-Azhar University (M.A., 1955) and the University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1966). He is Professor Emeritus at King Saud University in Riyadh and chaired its Department of Islamic Studies. In 1980, he was the recipient of the prestigious King Faisal International Award for Islamic Studies. He has also served as curator of the National Public Library, Qatar, and acted as Visiting Scholar, Fellow, and Professor respectively at numerous institutes, including Umm al-Qura University, Princeton University, and St. Cross College at the University of Oxford. His publications include Studies in Early Hadith Literature, Hadith Methodology and Literature, On Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence, Dirasat fiʾl Hadith an-Nabawi, Manhaj an-Naqd ʿind al-Muhaddithin, and Al-Muhaddithun min al-Yamamah. He has also edited Al-ʿIlal of Ibn al-Madīnī, Kitab at-Tamryiz of Imam Muslim, Maghazi Rasul Allah of Urwah ibn az-Zubayr, Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik, the Sahih of Ibn Khuzaymah, and the Sunan of Ibn Majah. ...more