Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami, one of the world's premier scholars of Hadith, was born in Mau,

India in the early 1930s and received his education successively at Dar al-Ulum Deoband, India
(1952), al-Azhar University, Cairo (M.A., 1955), and University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1966). He
is Professor Emeritus at King Sa'ud University (Riyadh) where he also chaired the department of
Islamic Studies; he holds a Saudi citizenship. Al-Azami served as curator of the National Public
Library, Qatar; Associate Professor at Umm al-Qura University (Makkah); Visiting Scholar at
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); Visiting Fellow at St. Cross College (University of
Oxford); King Faisal Visiting Professor for Islamic Studies at Princeton; and Visiting Scholar at
University of Colorado (Boulder). He is also an Honorary Professor at University of Wales
(Lampeter). His publications include Studies in Early Hadith Literature, Hadith Methodology
and Literature, On Schacht's Origins of Muahmmadan Jurisprudence, Dirasat fi al-Hadith anNabawi, Kuttab an-Nabi, Manhaj an-Naqd 'ind al-Muhaddithin, and al-Muhaddithun min alYamamah. Among his credited works are al-Ilal of Ibn al-Madini, Kitab at-Tamyiz of Imam
Muslim, Maghazi Rasulullah of Urwah ibn Zubayr, Muwatta Imam Malik, Sahih ibn
Khuzaimah, and Sunan ibn Majah. Many of al-Azami's works have been translated
internationally, and his forthcoming works include The Qur'anic Challenge: A Promise Fulfilled,
and The Isnad System: Its Origins and Authenticity. In 1980 he was the recipient of the
prestigious King Faisal International Award for Islamic Studies.
Born in India in 1930, Mustafa al-Azami completed his primary, middle and high school
education in India. He graduated Darul Ulum in Diobend. In Cairo he took a masters degree the
Azhar University (1955), and he completed his doctorate at Cambridge University (1966) with a
dissertation entitled Studies in Early Hadith Literature. Working at the Qatar National Library
between the years 1955-64, Azami later held various positions, after he finished his doctorate, at
the Ummul Qura University in Mecca and the Michigan, Princeton and Colorado universities. He
retired the Islamic Research Department at the King Saud University. Still honorary professor at
the King Saud University, Azami was awarded the International King Faisal Islamic Research
Award in 1980.

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The author of many works, Muhammad Mustafa al-Azami was the first Muslim
researcher who took up in all aspects and refuted the claims of Orientalists to the effect that
hadiths (sayings of the Prophet) had not been handed down in a reliable way. Beginning at the
end of the 17th century in the West, Orientalist works on the sunnah (practices of the Prophet)
and hadith brought up claims regarding doubts about the reliability of the Quran and sunnah, in
particular, and they made publications questioning the authenticity of hadiths. Following the
Western academic world closely and aware of the Orientalists works and making a great
contribution to Islamic sciences, particularly the science of hadith, M. Azami destroyed these
claims by producing evidence within a framework of scientific methodology.

The History of the Qur'anic Text from Revelation to

Compilation: A Comparative Study with the Old and New
Testaments.
Studies in Early Hadith Literature - With a critical edition of some
early texts .
On Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence