Zahir bin Muhammad al-Shahri
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Zahir bin Muhammad al-Shahri is a contemporary Saudi researcher and scholar in Islamic studies, best known for compiling comprehensive indices for the corpus of Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti .
Education and Academic Work
His full name is Zahir bin Muhammad bin Sa'id al-Shahri . He pursued higher education in Islamic culture and completed his master's degree at the Department of Islamic Culture within the College of Education at King Saud University in Riyadh . His master's thesis was an academic study titled Mawqif Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jama'ah min Tanzil Nusus al-Fitan wa-Ashrat al-Sa'ah 'ala al-Hawadith: al-Sufyani Unmudhajan (The Stance of Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jama'ah on Projecting Texts of Tribulations and Portents of the Hour onto Historical Events: The Sufyani as a Case Study) . He has also authored articles and essays for Islamic periodicals, including Majallat al-Bayan .
Scholarly Contributions
Al-Shahri undertook the indexing of the printed writings, treatises, and recorded lessons of Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti . Carried out over several years across multiple phases, this project produced al-Faharis al-Shamila li-Athar al-Shaykh al-Allamah Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti (Comprehensive Indices to the Works of Shaykh Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti) . Scholar Khalid bin Uthman al-Sabt commended the compilation as an exhaustive guide to al-Shinqiti’s legal, exegetical, and theological discussions, transmitting the material to the editorial committee overseeing the collected edition of al-Shinqiti’s works—a multi-volume publication project previously supervised by Bakr bin Abdullah Abu Zayd . Al-Shahri revised and completed the cross-references to match that standard edition, concluding the work in Rabi' al-Awwal 1435 AH (January 2014) .
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List of Works
This specialized bibliographic reference work compiles comprehensive indices for the complete corpus of Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti. It encompasses printed books, manuscripts, and audio lessons, organizing the material across twenty-eight thematic and textual indices covering legal, exegetical, and linguistic subjects.