Hamiduddin Farahi

Hamiduddin Farahi
Personal
Born18 November 1863
Phariha, Azamgarh District, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died11 November 1930(1930-11-11) (aged 66)
Mathura, United Provinces, British India
ReligionIslam
NationalityBritish India
EraModern era 20th century
RegionIndian subcontinent
DenominationSunni
MovementModernism[1]
Main interest(s)Quran
Notable work(s)Mufradat al Quran ("Vocabulary of the Quran")

Asalib al Quran ("Style of the Quran") Jamhara-tul-Balaghah ("Manual of Quranic Rhetoric") Im'an Fi Aqsam al-Qur'an (A Study of the Qur'anic Oaths)]

Nizam al-Qur'an (Nazm or Coherence in the Qur'an - a commentary on the Qur'an, Introduction)
Alma materAligarh Muslim University
Occupationlinguistic Shaykh al-Islām
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

Hamiduddin Farahi (18 November 1863 – 11 November 1930) was an Indian Islamic scholar known for his work on the concept of nazm, or coherence, in the Quran.[2][3] The modernist Farahi school is named after him.

He was instrumental in producing scholarly work on the theory that the verses of the Quran are interconnected in such a way that each surah, or chapter, of the Quran forms a coherent structure, having its own central theme, which he called umood. He also started writing his own exegesis, or tafsir of the Quran which was left incomplete on his death in 1930. The muqaddimah, or introduction to this is an important work on the theory of Nazm-ul-Quran.[4]

  1. ^ Iqbal, M. and di Lampedusa, G., 2009. Contextualizing the Formation and Ideology of Islamism. Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami, 31, p.49.
  2. ^ The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. "Profile of Hamiduddin Farahi". Oxford Reference website. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  3. ^ Nadeem F. Paracha (26 March 2017). "SMOKERS' CORNER: The Invisible Scholar". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference AM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).