Studies in Quranic Sciences by Muhammad Bakr Ismail

About the author of Studies in the Sciences of the Quran 

Muhammad Bakr Ismail was an Egyptian writer and Islamic preacher, born in al-Mahamid, Edfu district, Aswan Governorate, in 1936. He memorized the Holy Quran at an early age. He earned a master's degree and then a doctorate with distinction and first-class honors in Quranic exegesis and the sciences of the Holy Quran from the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion at Al-Azhar University. He rose through the ranks of the Al-Azhar University faculty until he became a professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies. He had a long and distinguished record in the field of da'wah in Egypt and across the Islamic world, and taught at a number of Arab universities

Although he specialized in exegesis, he had a comprehensive Islamic education and enriched the Islamic library with many books and works in various fields such as hadith, jurisprudence, Islamic history, language, rhetoric and other branches of knowledge. His works number more than eighty books, the most notable of which include: “Clear Jurisprudence According to the Four Schools”, “Studies in the Sciences of the Quran”, “Al-Bayan on the Rules of Quranic Recitation”, “The Essence of Exegesis”, “The Counsels of the Messenger (peace be upon him)”, “Men Whom the Messenger (peace be upon him) Loved and to Whom He Gave Glad Tidings of Paradise”, and “Believing Women Who Hold a High Standing with God

About the book Studies in the Sciences of the Quran

“Studies in the Sciences of the Quran” is written by Dr. Muhammad Bakr Ismail, and its second edition was published in 1419 AH – 1999 CE by Dar al-Manar. The book presents numerous studies in the sciences of the Quran, covering a range of different topics

such as: the concept of the sciences of the Quran, their development and origins, the names of the Quran, the differences between the Quran, the Divine (Qudsi) hadith and the Prophetic hadith, the descents of the Quran, the gradual revelation of the Quran, the first and last parts of the Quran to be revealed, the places of revelation (Meccan and Medinan), the verses of the Quran and their order, the surahs of the Quran and their order, the number of surahs and verses, as well as the number of its words and letters, the revelation of the Quran in seven modes (ahruf), the recitations and the reciters, the compilation of the Quran in memory and in writing, the orthography of the Mushaf, the dotting, vowelling, division and embellishment of the Mushaf, the occasions of revelation, distinguishing the clear verses from the ambiguous ones, the ruling on the ambiguous verses concerning the divine attributes, and the disjointed letters at the openings of surahs

Studies in the Sciences of the Quran