al-Kashif al-Mubin an Ghalat al-Muhaqqiqin
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al-Kāshif al-Mubīn ʿan Ghalaṭ al-Muḥaqqiqīn (The Clear Clarifier of the Errors of Critical Editors) is a critical treatise authored by the contemporary Egyptian scholar and textual editor Muḥammad ibn Rajab al-Khūlī (known by the kunya Abū Māzin) .
Author and Context
Muḥammad ibn Rajab al-Khūlī (also cited as Muḥammad ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad al-Khūlī and identified as al-Miṣrī al-Makkī) is an Islamic scholar and manuscript editor active in the fields of Qurʾanic readings (qirāʾāt), Hadith, and manuscript verification (taḥqīq) . Beyond his critical evaluations of editorial errors, his scholarly contributions include the didactic versification al-Rutab al-ʿUlyāt al-Nūrāniyyah fī Faḍl al-Qirāʾāt al-Qurʾāniyyah on the virtues of Qurʾanic recitations—which received commendations from scholars such as Walīd ibn Idrīs al-Manīsī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUbayd, and ʿAbd al-Hādī Ḥamītū —as well as the critical edition of Rawḍat al-Taqrīr fī Ikhtilāf al-Qirāʾāt bayna al-Irshād wa-al-Taysīr by ʿAlī ibn Abī Muḥammad al-Dīwānī . He has also participated in major collaborative editing projects of classical Hadith works, such as the edition of Ibn Abī Ḥātim's Kitāb al-ʿIlal .
Scope
The work addresses recurring inaccuracies, misreadings, and methodological lapses encountered in published critical editions of classical Islamic texts, identifying and clarifying erroneous readings and emendations made by contemporary editors .
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