نشأة علم تحقيق المخطوط بين المسلمين و المستشرقين

Abstract EN

The manuscript is considered as an important document on which modern academic studies and research are based, as it reveals many vague scientific aspects in various fields and disciplines of research, as well as reflecting the intellectual and cultural power of the Islamic nation through the ages.

However, these texts and manuscript documents must be subject to the process of scientific investigation in order to give them a correct character free from the factors of change and distortion to which these manuscripts are exposed over time, and this is only with the science of investigation, which is the methodological mechanism in bringing these texts to light, a science that is considered the first of many efforts over time until it reached what it is today.

The article discusses the origins of the emergence of codicology and the various contributions that participated in its formation based on the premise of the uniqueness of Islamic scholars in its creation, or the uniqueness of orientalists in its composition in the modern era, to the results of the gathering of the truth of the pre-eminence to the formation of this science and the various efforts that worked to establish its origins and rules.