Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Dubaysi
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Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Dubaysi is a modern researcher and Islamic scholar, known for his comparative study on the Prophetic biography (al-Sira al-Nabawiyya) titled al-Sira al-Nabawiyya Bayn al-Athar al-Marwiyya wa al-Ayat al-Quraniyya ("The Prophetic Biography Between Narrated Reports and Quranic Verses") .
Academic Work and Thought
Al-Dubaysi prepared his doctoral dissertation in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Ain Shams University's Faculty of Arts, under the academic supervision of Professor Iffat al-Sharqawi .
His research presents a textual and comparative examination that correlates traditional historical narrations with the Quranic text . In the introduction to his study, al-Dubaysi emphasizes that the study of the life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is not intended to be a mere chronicle of historical events or an account of past rulers; rather, it aims to present Islamic truth as embodied in the Prophet's life and as the practical application of divine revelation . He underscores that the Prophet ﷺ represents the exemplar across all dimensions of human existence—spiritual, material, psychological, and physical—citing the Quranic verse: لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ ("There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern") .
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This academic study on the biography of the Prophet Muhammad was originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Ain Shams University's Faculty of Arts under the supervision of Professor Iffat al-Sharqawi. The work provides a textual and comparative examination juxtaposing traditional historical narrations with the Quranic text, treating the Quran as the primary and most authoritative textual foundation for understanding the Prophetic life.