Orientalistic Empirical Research Scholarship of Qur’anic Text: A Critical Appraisal by Mustafa Azami
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Orientalism is a multifarious representation of eastern religions and cultures with a lying a perpetual consideration on Islamic fundamental sources. They intend to cast doubts on Quranic text with so-called empirical substance collating with the extent Quran in hand. A series of allegations including San’a fragments story and Mingana’s antiquity fiction along with some other manifestations appeared by the orientalists like Blachere, Flugel and Wansbrough etc. The ultimate purpose was to malign the belief of Muslims and scratching the status and authenticity of their religious fundamental sources. A renowned late Muslim scholar Muhammad Mustafa Azami has tremendously traced this fiction based academic wave of orientalism and critically analyzed their misleading and deceptive notions with giving elucidative empirical evidences for the authenticity of Quranic text at its parallel at the same time. This article has been focusing the phenomenon of empirical orientalistic academia on Quran and its superficial aspects in the authentic and concrete approach of Sheikh Azami.
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