M. Mustafa al-Azami

A visual catalogue and record, the work comprises a collation of 19 Qurʾanic manuscripts focusing on one sūrah (Al-Isrāʾ) but spanning the entire history of Islam. The verses are aligned in a parallel framework so that each word, each letter, each verse is brought into focus. This enables the reader to discern the text visually, by contemplating the very script whose recitation echoed throughout the centuries, from the time when the Companions of the Prophet g made their way through the alleyways to the Prophet’s Mosque and set down to work, to fourteen centuries later when the hum of the modern, digital printing press accompanies the mass production of muṣḥafs for distribution across the globe

This is a topic-by-topic study about the science of Hadith written to fulfil the needs of students whose medium of instruction is mainly in English. The book has been divided into two parts. Part one deals with the subject of hadith methodology. Part two discusses the literature, introducing the six principal hadith books as well as six other books which had great significance and represent a stage in the compilation of hadith books.