Documenting the Holy Quranic Text: Fundamental Study with a Contemporary Perspective
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2025-18-4-867-888
Abstract
The reason for the creation of this branch of Quranic sciences was the desire of Muslim theologians to answer consistent questions that arose either in the minds of researchers, or in the minds of atheists or representatives of some teachings that deviated from Islamic orthodoxy. The answers to these questions have become the subject of this branch of Quranic studies.
The purpose of this modest research is to present these answers arranged in a logical order, at the same time agreeing with the need and motive for raising these questions in the mind of those who ask them. We see that the answers to them represent what can be called the term "theories of Quranic studies", which include: the Theory of Divine Revelation, the Theory of Ways of Reciting and Transmitting the Quranic Text, etc.
Of these theories, we have listed below six general theories that researchers can benefit from by studying them carefully. This may encourage researchers to supplement these theories or exclude some of them by adding something to others.
Perhaps, considering the issues of Quranic studies through these theories will allow us to understand this topic more deeply, identify the basis of disagreements and their causes, and also help in choosing and preferring one opinion over another. It may also indicate the importance of addressing issues whose usefulness cannot be fully known without studying them through these theories. Finally, it will highlight the benefits of some of the topics around which ancient disputes have arisen that have not yet been fully and definitively resolved.
About the Author
H. H. As-Safti
Bolgar Islamic Academy
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Hamdella Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim As-Safti, PhD (Islamic and Pedagogical Sciences), lecturer. Head of the Department of Education and Science at the League of Graduates of the International Islamic University Al-Azhar (Egypt).
Bolgar
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As-Safti H. Documenting the Holy Quranic Text: Fundamental Study with a Contemporary Perspective. Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2025;18(4):867-888. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2025-18-4-867-888
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