Hasan bin Idris Azzouzi
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Hasan bin Idris Azzouzi (حسن بن إدريس عزوزي) is a contemporary Moroccan scholar and academic whose research focuses on Quranic sciences, Orientalism, and studies of the Prophetic biography (al-Sīrah al-Nabawiyyah) .
Scholarly Contributions and Research
Based in Fes, Azzouzi has authored critical and bibliographical studies addressing Western perceptions of Islam and the methodology of Islamic scholarship. His monograph Dirāsāt fī al-Istishrāq wa-Manāhijih (Studies in Orientalism and Its Methods) examines Orientalist research frameworks and their historical trajectories .
In the field of Prophetic biography, he prepared al-Ihtimām bi-al-Sīrah al-Nabawiyyah bi-al-Lughah al-Faransiyyah: ʿArḍ wa-Taḥlīl (Interest in the Prophetic Biography in the French Language: Presentation and Analysis), published by the King Fahd Complex for Printing the Holy Quran in Medina . The study traces French-language engagements with the life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ from medieval ecclesiastical records and early Orientalist accounts to modern twentieth-century scholarship, surveying both Muslim contributions and Western analyses .
Azzouzi has also contributed to manuscript editing and periodical scholarship. He edited a portion of Ḥāshiyah ʿalā Tafsīr al-Jalālayn (Supercommentary on Tafsir al-Jalalayn) by the Moroccan jurist ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Qaṣrī al-Fāsī (d. 1036 AH), published in Morocco in 1436 AH under the auspices of the Local Scientific Council of Moulay Yacoub Province . Additionally, he has written articles on Islamic pedagogy, including a study on the characteristics of Islamic education published in Majallat al-Waʿy al-Islāmī in 1997 .
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List of Works
al-Ihtimam bil-Sira al-Nabawiya bil-Lugha al-Faransiya (Ard wa Tahlil) (Interest in the Prophetic Biography in the French Language: Presentation and Analysis) is a bibliographical and critical study published by the King Fahd Complex for Printing the Holy Quran in Medina. The work surveys and analyzes writings on the biography of the Prophet Muhammad produced in or translated into French, evaluating both Muslim and Western orientalist contributions.