The Divine Message and the Exemplary Messenger

ABDUL MAJID DARYABADI’S TAFSIR-UL-QURAN: A CRITICAL STUDY, edited by Gowhar Quadir Wani and Abdul Kader Choughley. K. A. Nizami Centre for Quranic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in collaboration with Ahsan Academy of Research, Springs, South Africa, 2021. Pp. 368. ISBN: 9789390167791.

PROPHET MUHAMMAD’S (PEACE BE UPON HIM) LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF THE QURAN,  by  Abdul  Majid  Daryabadi  (edited  by  Abdul Kader Choughley). K. A. Nizami Centre for Quranic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in collaboration with Ahsan Academy of Research, Springs, South Africa, 2021. Pp. 164. ISBN: 9789390167784.

ENCOUNTER BET WEEN FAITH AND MATERIALISM: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF SURAH AL-KAHF, by Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi (edited by Abdul Kader Choughley). K. A. Nizami Centre for Quranic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in collaboration with Ahsan Academy of Research, Springs, South Africa, 2021. Pp. 99. ISBN: 9789390167814.

HOW TO STUDY THE QURAN: SAYYID ABUL HASAN ALI NADWI’S APPROACH, by Abdul Kader Choughley. K. A. Nizami Centre for Quranic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in collaboration with Ahsan Academy of Research, Springs, South Africa, 2021. Pp. 108. ISBN: 9789390167852.

THE INIMITABLE QUR’AN: SOME PROBLEMS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE QUR’AN WITH REFERENCE TO RHETORICAL FEATURES, by Khalid Yahya  Blankinship. Leiden: Brill, Pp. 201. ISBN: 9789004412521.

TAFSIR-I QUR’AN: TARIKH, USUL AWR MANAHIJ-I TAFSIR (URDU) (Qur’anic Exegesis: History, Principles and Methodologies), by Muhammad Rafiuddin Faruqi. Hyderabad, India: Shan Publications, 2020. Pp. 304. ISBN: n.g.

The pivotal position occupied by the Qur’an and the Sirah (the illustrious life of the Prophet Muhammad, blessings and peace be upon him) is taken for granted and uncontested by all Muslims. Numerous books and articles in different world languages have appeared exploring various aspects of these two primary sources of the religion of Islam. Since the early twentieth century, when English started to gain general currency in the Muslim world, particularly in the former British colonies, and the presence of Muslims in the West began to be felt, along with the conversion to Islam of many native westerners, the corpus of writings on Islam in English has witnessed a phenomenal growth. Apart from more than thirty new English translations of the Qur’an by Muslim scholars between 2000 and 2017, hundreds of studies in English on the message of the Qur’an and the life of the Prophet Muhammad, blessings and peace be upon him, have appeared.