Russia, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan have implemented a joint project for the publication of the manuscript "Shamail an-Nabi"

Russia, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan have implemented a joint project to publish the manuscript "Shamail an-Nabi" ("Virtues of the Prophet"), dedicated to the qualities and virtues of the Prophet Muhammad.

As reported by BAKU.WS with reference to Report, this was announced by the First Deputy Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of the Russian Federation and head of the "Medina" publishing house (Russia), Damir Mukhitdinov, during the plenary session III "Heritage That Unites Centuries. Spiritual Meanings of Islamic Civilization" at the International Media Forum.

According to him, the original manuscript is kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The text was transcribed in 1859 by the Tatar orientalist scholar Husain Faizkhanov, a student of Shigabutdin Marjani.

He noted that the cooperation agreement with the Center for Islamic Studies (a structural division of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) was signed on August 27, 2024, after which work on the project began.

The translation of the book into Russian was carried out by Elmir Kuliyev.

"The modern translation, the first edition, will also help introduce a wide audience of readers and, above all, Muslim students to this magnificent work," he noted.

According to Mukhitdinov, the publication contains 415 hadiths and is divided into 56 chapters. The original manuscript consists of 48 pages.

The preparation of the publication involved the Director of the Center for Islamic Civilization of Uzbekistan, Firdavs Abdukhalikov, who wrote the foreword, as well as the Director of the Imam Termezi Center, Muzaffarkhon Zhoniyev, and Doctor of Theology Ruslan Baishev, who served as reviewers.

Mukhitdinov expressed gratitude to all project participants and announced plans to release the book in a mass print run by the end of the current year.

"For now, we have prepared it in a small print run, and this is what the book looks like in this copy," he said.

He emphasized that this project is part of large-scale efforts aimed at preserving, digitizing, translating, and publishing Islamic theological heritage.

"I am confident that the image of the Prophet Muhammad that Imam Tirmidhi was able to compile 1,200 years ago will also be relevant for modern Muslims," he concluded.