Prolegomena to the Quran
by Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī Akbar Khūʼī
Category: Religion

This book, which was first published in Arabic in 1974, presents al-Khui's comprehensive introduction to the history of the Quran. In it, al-Khui revisits many critical and controversial topics connected with the collection and ultimate canonization of the text that have received little attention in contemporary Muslim scholarship since the classical age. For instance, he tackles what is probably the single most controversial subject in Quranic studies: the question of possible alterations to the Quran as maintained by some succeeding generations of compilers of the Quran.