Tarikh al-Quran wa al-Masahif. History of the Qur'an and the Books
( تاريخ القرآن و المصاحف)

Name: Tarikh al-Quran wa al-Masahif. History of the Qur'an and the Books
Author: Musa Bigiev

Title	Tarikh al-Quran wa al-Masahif. History of the Qur'an and the Books
Title Original	تاريخ القرآن و المصاحف
Author	Musa Bigiev
Publication Date:	1905
Publication Place	- Typo-lithography of Boragansky and Co., St. Petersburg, 1905.
Type	kitap
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	38
Library:	Darul Kutub
Library Asset ID	36af4f3951d0409cfb2b5e57a525332a17bcb46e
Record ID	14
Library Location	Darul Pole
Date	1905
Notes	This work of the Tatar scientist was first published in St. Petersburg in 1905. This is one of the rare publications of the author, where he signed himself as Musa Jarullah Rostovdoni, thereby indicating his place of birth - Rostov-on-Don. At the moment, this work of Musa Bigiev is considered his first published scientific work. He began working on it while still a student at Al-Azhar Islamic University. It was then that his independent studies of the Koran began. In general, Musa Bigiev studied the Koran throughout his entire life and was the only Koran expert in Russia who reached the level of “hafiz kura”, i.e. "guardian of the ten ways of reciting the Qur'an." This small work, only 38 pages long, was written in good literary Arabic. It is interesting that this work by Musa Bigiev found its reader abroad - in 1907 it was reprinted in the Egyptian magazine Al-Manar, whose editor was the Chief Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Muhammad Abdo (1849-1905). Musa Bigiev himself presented his treatise as an experience in popularizing one of the works of Imam al-Shatibi, on the basis of which the young Tatar scientist intended to create a kind of encyclopedia on the history of the Koran, which would collect “everything said by other authors about the history of the Koran and its inimitability, as well as the meaning of the “seven harfs” in a brief summary.” This work cannot be considered complete, since on its basis the author intended to write not only a modern comprehensive textbook on the history of the Holy Scriptures for madrassas, but also intended to make it the first stage in a broad process of replacing textbooks for Russian Muslims with new and high-quality models in order to reform not only the system of Muslim education, but also approaches to the formation of the thinking of Muslims. (Ph.D. Khairutdinov A.G.)

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Tarikh al-Quran wa al-Masahif. History of the Qur'an and the Books

( تاريخ القرآن و المصاحف)

Author Musa Bigiev

Publication Date 1905

Publication Place - Typo-lithography of Boragansky and Co., St. Petersburg, 1905.

Type kitap

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 38

Library Darul Kutub

Library Asset ID 36af4f3951d0409cfb2b5e57a525332a17bcb46e

Record ID 14

Library Location Darul Pole

Date 1905

Notes This work of the Tatar scientist was first published in St. Petersburg in 1905. This is one of the rare publications of the author, where he signed himself as Musa Jarullah Rostovdoni, thereby indicating his place of birth - Rostov-on-Don. At the moment, this work of Musa Bigiev is considered his first published scientific work. He began working on it while still a student at Al-Azhar Islamic University. It was then that his independent studies of the Koran began. In general, Musa Bigiev studied the Koran throughout his entire life and was the only Koran expert in Russia who reached the level of “hafiz kura”, i.e. "guardian of the ten ways of reciting the Qur'an." This small work, only 38 pages long, was written in good literary Arabic. It is interesting that this work by Musa Bigiev found its reader abroad - in 1907 it was reprinted in the Egyptian magazine Al-Manar, whose editor was the Chief Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Muhammad Abdo (1849-1905). Musa Bigiev himself presented his treatise as an experience in popularizing one of the works of Imam al-Shatibi, on the basis of which the young Tatar scientist intended to create a kind of encyclopedia on the history of the Koran, which would collect “everything said by other authors about the history of the Koran and its inimitability, as well as the meaning of the “seven harfs” in a brief summary.” This work cannot be considered complete, since on its basis the author intended to write not only a modern comprehensive textbook on the history of the Holy Scriptures for madrassas, but also intended to make it the first stage in a broad process of replacing textbooks for Russian Muslims with new and high-quality models in order to reform not only the system of Muslim education, but also approaches to the formation of the thinking of Muslims. (Ph.D. Khairutdinov A.G.)