A doctoral thesis was discussed in the Department of Arabic Language/College of Education for Human Sciences, University of Basra - Miftah al-Furqan fi Bayan al-Waqf wa Rasm al-Qur’an - Study and Investigation - by Sheikh Muhammad Al-Qari bin Sheikh Shams Al-Din Al-Kazemi)
By the student: Ali Abdul Wahed Aziz Al-Husseini
The thesis dealt with verifying the material of the book by placing the verse number on the stopping places specified by the compiler, extracting the hadiths contained in the text with a translation of the notables mentioned in the manuscript, commenting in the margin on most of the stopping places and comparing them with the scholars who preceded the author of the manuscript, as well as explaining the nature of the drawing. The words that violated the spelling rules by mentioning the connotations of that violation. The study also addressed the difference in specifying the headings of the verses and the positions of the parts and parts. The investigation was preceded by investigations included in the study, which dealt with describing the manuscript versions, comparing them with each other, explaining what was approved of them, and mentioning the reasons for those that were excluded from them.
The thesis aims to achieve our Islamic heritage and present it to scientific libraries and reading in the finest and most beautiful form. It is part of loyalty to the direction of our righteous predecessors by highlighting what their pens poured forth in the service of the Mighty Book of God.
The study concluded that the science of investigation has clear importance and this importance appears in its results. As it revives what may be studied from the heritage of our scholars and their scientific efforts, and just as the science of investigation is considered the practical study of the human sciences, the study also reached the agreement of most of our scholars - despite their differences in sects and beliefs - on most of the phenomena in the sciences of the Qur’an, such as the appearance of stopping and beginning, Quranic drawing, recitations, and Makkah. And civil, and other such phenomena and sciences.
The thesis recommended allocating a center to revive the Arab heritage, staffed by specialized professors. It also called for issuing a copy of the Qur’an in which the waqf signs agree with what most of the waqf scholars mentioned.
