On Arthur leffery and His Qur'anic Studies. Arthur leffery is a famous philologist and a minister of the Methodist Church. At the begining of his carrier, he performed some Biblical studies, but then, most of his works concentrated on the Islamic sciences, especially the Qur'an and its variant readings. Collaborating with some German researchers, he tried to collect all variant readings of the Qur'an in order to publish it as a complete text with a eritical apparatus. However the ir attemp

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... t succeed. In this artiele we deseribed Qur'anic studies of leffery and his thoughts on the Prophet, the Qur'an and the variant readings. Alsa we summarized evaluations of some muslim and western scholars about leffery's studies and thoughts.