Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muṣṭafā b. Aḥmad Abū Zahra (1898–1994) was an Egyptian legal scholar and one of the leading Muslim jurists of the twentieth century, and left behind a distinctive body of scholarship that gained him international acclaim during his lifetime. He wrote more than thirty books and over 100 essays and research papers on Islamic law and jurisprudence, Qur’ān commentary, ḥadīth , theology, law and society, and Arabic literature......... [click here to download the full article in pdf ]