Mahmud al-Mallah
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Mahmud al-Mallah (1308–1389 AH / 1891–1969 CE) was an Iraqi researcher, critic, and writer from Mosul known for his critical essays and historical studies, including Muqaddimat Ibn Khaldun: Dirasa wa-Naqd (The Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun: A Study and Critique).
Life and Intellectual Activity
Mahmud ibn Abd Allah ibn Yunus al-Mallah was born in 1308 AH (1891 CE) and belonged to the city of Mosul. He established himself as an active researcher and essayist across Iraqi intellectual circles, frequently engaging in literary and linguistic criticism. He was a regular contributor to the cultural journal Lughat al-Arab, edited by Father Anastas-Marie al-Karmali, where he published critical reviews and lexical observations on contemporary books and linguistic usages.
In addition to periodical articles, he published polemical and analytical monographs on Arab history and literature, such as his critical work Tashrih Sharh Nahj al-Balagha (Dissection of the Commentary on Nahj al-Balagha). He died in 1389 AH (1969 CE).
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List of Works
Fath al-Rahman fi Bayan Hijr al-Quran (The Opening of the All-Merciful Concerning the Clarification of Abandoning the Quran) is an Islamic treatise focusing on the legal rulings, manifestations, and remedies associated with neglecting or abandoning the Quran. It examines the worldly and otherworldly consequences of abandonment and addresses neglect across areas such as recitation, listening, contemplation, practice, healing, and legal arbitration.
al-Taliq ala al-Rahiq al-Makhtum (Commentary on The Sealed Nectar) is a critical commentary and verification work written to annotate historical inaccuracies, weak narrations, and phrasing issues in Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri's widely circulated biography of the Prophet Muhammad, al-Rahiq al-Makhtum.
al-Ahadith al-Daifa wal-Mawdua allati hakama alayha al-Hafiz Ibn Kathir fi Tafsirihi (The Weak and Fabricated Hadiths Evaluated by al-Hafiz Ibn Kathir in His Tafsir) is a hadith reference work that isolates, organizes, and annotates the prophetic narrations that Ibn Kathir explicitly declared weak or fabricated, or whose weakness he cited from other scholars with approval, in his Quranic commentary Tafsir al-Quran al-Azim.