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Select Primary Tafsir  Sources  in Arabic, Persian and Turkish arranged Chronologically with Occasional Bio-Bibliographical Groupings, Notes and Academic Articles. 

Islamic Tafsīr, Qur'ān Commentary I :

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Stephen Lambden UC Merced (CA, USA).

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The Web page(s) below are constantly under revision and updating. They will evolve into the bibliography of a forthcoming book about Islamic hermeneutics and Tafsīr perhaps entitled Dimensions of Tafsīr ("Exegesis") and Ta'wīl ("Eisegesis") in Islamic Qur'ān Commentary, A Literary Survey and Bibliographical Handbook. This book will give special attention to attitudes about exterior (ẓāhir) and interior (bāṭin) dimensions of meaning within diverse approaches to Qur'ān commentary as illustrated within varieties of Sunnī and Shī`ī Tafsīr and related literatures. It will attempt to give weight to those Islamic traditions (hadith, akhbar) and thinkers which sanction or put forth a deeper level of Qur'ānic understanding that may go beyond the merely literalistic. It will pay attention to those who have treasured both the straightforward senses of the Qur'ān and what might be its inner meanings or deeper senses. Corrections and suggested additions to these Web page(s) would be greatly welcomed - mailto: slambden@ucmerced.edu

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`Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (b. Mecca c. 600 CE - d. Kufa 40/661).

The fīrst Imam for the Twelver Imami Shī`ī Muslims and fourth Caliph of the Sunnis

The cousin, son-in-law, and (for Imami Shi`is and others the immediate) successor to the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632 CE). He was very widely respected as an important expert on all aspects of Tafsīr. Ibn `Abbās (d. c. 68 / 687) who is regarded as the "Father of Tafsīr" (see below) is reported to have said, "What I took from the interpretation of the Qur'ān is from `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib". The possibly proto-Shī`ī companion Ibn Maṣ`ūd allegedly stated that `Alī was heir to both the inward and outward dimensions of the Qur'ān. `Alī is reckoned to have compiled one of the earliest chronologically organized recensions of the Qur'ān (see Modarressi 2003: 2-4). Many ḥadith on Qur'ān commentary are attributed to and relayed from `Alī and his Imami associates and sympathizers. He remains a foundational figure of the greatest importance. A number of Tafsīr books or crystallizations of Tafsīr tradition are attributed to him. In recent years some of them have been the subject of academic evaluation. Sunni anti-Shi`i polemic to some extent appears to have eclipsed or lessened the full appreciation of his central position in the genesis of Qur'ān commentary.

• Qur'ān codex. An early recension probably represented by the reading of `Āṣim ibn Abī Najūd al-Kūfī (d. ; one of the seven "readers" of the Qur'ān) and transmitted by Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān al-Kūfī (d.180/796) also a `Reader of the Qur'ān' and the former's student and step-son (Modarressi 2003:3 fn.10).
• Monograph on the recension of `Alī by the Sunnī writer Abū Ṭāhir `Abd al-Waḥīd ibn `Umar al-Baghdāī al-Bazzāz (d.349/960).
• See below on the Tafsīr attributed to Ibn `Abbās (d. c. 68 / 687).

Modarressi, Hossein.

• 'Early Debates on the Integrity of the Qur'ān: A Brief Survey' Studia Islamica, No. 77. (1993).

`Ā'isha' bint Abi Bakr, third wife of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 58/678).

• Tafsīr umm al-mu'minīn. ed. `Abd-Allah Abū al-Su`ūd Badr. Cairo: Dār al-`Ālam al-kutub. 1416/1996. *

Ibn `Abbās, `Abd-Allāh  (d. c. 68 / 687).

Ibn `Abbās, `Abd-Allāh  (d. c. 68 / 687).

A  paternal first cousin of Muhammad, was known as al-ḥi[a]br al-`arab (`Rabbi of the Arabs'). Many Muslims have regarded him as the father of tafsīr because he is thought to have written the first Islamic tafsīr work (Goldziher, 1970:65f; Sezgin GAS I:25; Goldfield,1981). Exegetical traditions stemming from Ibn `Abbās are especially rich in lexicographical insights and the Islamo-biblica, Abrahamica or Isrā’īliyyāt. A knowledgeable companion of the Prophet, he was an important collector and transmitter of biblical legends stemming from the Yemeni Jewish convert Ka`b al-Aḥbār (Rippin 1991:166). Many of his associates and students were important second century mufassirūn (Q. commentators). Like other early mufassirūn (Q. commentators) Ibn `Abbās made frequent use of non-literal, interpretation. Goldfeld has noted that his viewpoint was that it was appropiate at times for the Qur'an might be non-literally or allegorically interpreted less it "have no meaning to later generations" (1988:17, 25-27). There seems to have been a very close relationship between the (first Imam) `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661) and Ibn `Abbās. The latter is reported to have said, "What I took from the interpretation of the Quran is from `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib".

Tafsīr attributed to the paternal fīrst cousin of Muhammad, the 'Father of Tafsīr'.  Veccia Vaglieri, L. ``Abd Allāh b. al-'Abbās.' in EI² 1:40-1. On ascription and authenticity see Rippin cited above on al-Fīrūzābādī.

• Tafsīr Ibn `Abbās.. Şaḥīfa `Alī b. Abī Ṭalḥa `an Ibn `Abbās fī tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-Karīm. Beirut: Mu'assat al-Kutub al-Shaqāfī yya. 1411/1991. *
• Tanwīr  al‑miqbās min tafsīr Ibn `Abbās. Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 1412/1992 (664pp.). *
• Gharīb al-Qur'ān, ēd. Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahīm, Beirut 1993

 Goldfeld, Isaiah.

• The tafsir of `Abdallah b `Abbas." Islam. 58 (1981): 125-135.

Rippin, Andrew.

• `Tafsir Ibn `Abbas and Criteria for Dating Tafsir Texts' JSAI  XIX (1994), 38-83. also in Rippin, The Qur'an and its Interpretive Tradition. ( = Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2001), Item XV

• `Ibn 'Abbas's Al-lughat fi'l-Qur'an'  in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 44, No. 1 (1981), 15-25

• "Ibn 'Abbas's Gharib al-Qur'an." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 46 (1983): 332-33.

•  "Tafsīr Ibn 'Abbas and Criteria for Dating Early Tafsir Texts. "Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 18 (1995): 38-83.

Motzki, H.

`Dating the so-called Tafsir Ibn `Abbas: some additional remarks' in JSAI 31 (2006 =  Studies in memory of Professor Franz Rosenthal) , 2  pp.

Ibn Jurayj = 'Abd al-Malik b. `Abd  al-`Azīz Ibn Jurayj (d. 150/ 767). Check!

Cited by al-Tabari and al-Tha`labi  as well as Ibn Ṭāwūs who possessed "an excellent copy". See Sezgin GAL 1:91 ?? ; Kohlberg 1992:341-2.

Prominent Kufān Shi`ite who excelled in Arabic grammar, lexicography, Qur'ān commentary and such other emergent Islamic sciences as Ḥadīth scholarship. An authority on the recitation of the Qur'ān, he is said to have been greatly respected by the sixth Imam Ja`far al-Ṣādiq (d.148/765) through whom important Tafsīr traditions were relayed and generated. Some details about him and his writings can be read in Modarressi's erudite Tradition and Survival  (2003) vol. 1: 107-116 which is drawn upon here.

Ibn Wahb =  'Abd-Allāh ibn Wahb  (125/743-197/812) or (742 or 3 - 812 or 13 )

Muqātil  ibn Sulayman = Abū’l-Ḥasan Muqātil  ibn Sulayman ibn Basir  al-Azdī al-Balkhī [al-Khurāsānī] (d. Basra 150 /767). 

See  Ibn al-Nadim, 179; Ta'rikh Baghdad XIII: 161,3; Sezgin GAS 1:36-7. Possibly a Zaydī (Shī`ī) commentator and theologian.

The possibly Zaydī (Shī`ī) commentator Muqātil b. Sulaymān al-Khurāsānī (d. Baṣra, 150/767) was a very important early transmitter of Isrā’īliyyat. In his historically oriented Tafsīr he gave much attention to the "biblical pre-history" of verses, as Versteegh refers to the Isrā’īliyyāt (Plessener [Rippin] `Mukātil b. Sulayman’ EI2 VIII: 508-9.1 Muqātil cited many exegetical traditions that can be traced back to the ahl al-kitāb (people of the Book). His haggadic type exegesis leaves little unexplained. The name, for example, of the namla (female ant) with which Solomon held converse is given as jarmī (Muqātil,Tafsīr III:299 on Q. 27:18).

Muqātil b. Sulayman al- Khurasani (d. Basra, 150/767).

• Tafsir = Tafsīr Muqātil b. Suklayman. ed. `Abd-Allāh Maḥmūd Shahḥata . 4+1 vols. Cairo: 1979-1988. 

Gilliot, Claude

Versteegh, C. H. M.

al-`Askarī, al-Ḥasan ibn `Ali (d. c. 260/874).

The 11th Imam of the twelver Shi`ites and the alleged father of Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi. See Brockelmann, GAL 1:333; Goldziher, Richt., 278; Gacek, ALB 1996:201.

تفسيرالإمام العسكري

 

Ḥasan al-`Askarī  (b. Medina 230/844- d. Samarra’ 260/874), Eleventh Shi`ite Imam.

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• Tafsīr al-`Askari. Mss. Brit. Mus. Or. 5582. Check.
• Tafsīr al-`Askari. Tehran Lithograph 1268/1851-2. ?
• Tafsīr al-`Askari, in the Margins of Tafsīr al-Qur'ān of `Ali Ibn Ibrahim al-Qumi. Lithograph [Tabriz?] by Hasan ibn Muhammad Amin al-Karamrudi. al-Tabrizi. Karkhanah-i Aḥmad Aqa and `Ali Aqa Ramadan 1315/1898. (pp.332+21). See Gacek ALB 1996: Nos.361 and 362.
• Tafsīr al-`Askari. Lucknow: ?.
• Tafsīr al-`Askari [attributed to the 11th Imam Ḥasan] al-`Askarī. Qumm: ADD., 1409/ 1988-9.10410

Bar-Asher, Meir M.

• Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999 (274pp.). *

al-`Ayyāshī = Abū'l-Nadr Muhammad ibn Mas`ūd ibn al-Ayyāsh al-Sulami al-Samarkandi (fl. early 4th/ 10th cent.) (d. c. 320/932).

Early Shi`i Tafsīr. See Brockelmann GAL ADD+ GAL-S ADD. EI2 1:794-5 art. B. Lewis;

• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān. ed. Hashim al-Rasul al-Maḥallātī. 2 vols. Qumm: Chapkhanah-yi `Ilmiyya. 1380-1/ Tehran 1380/1961. *
• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān. ed. Hashim al-Rasul al-Maḥallātī. 2 vols. Tehran : Maktabat al-`Ilmiyya al-Islamiyya, 1411/1991.
• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān. ed. Hashim al-Rasul al-Maḥallātī. 2 vols. Beirut: Mu`assat al-A`la. 1380-1/ 1411/1991. *
• Tafsīr al-`Ayyāshī, 2 vols. Beirut: ADD., XXXX/200X

al-Qummī, Abū al-Ḥasan `Ali ibn Ibrahim (d. c. 307/919 or 329/941).

al-Qummī, `Alī ibn Ibrahīm (d. c. 919 CE/ 10th cent.).

• Tafsīr al-Qummī. 2 vols. ed. Sayyid Ṭayyib al-Mūsawī al-Jazā’irī. Najaf: Maṭbaʻat al-Najaf, 1387/1967..
• Tafsīr al‑Qur’ān.

• The Tafsīr works of `Alī b. Ibrahīm al‑Qummī (d.10th cent.) and Abū'l‑Naẓr Muhammad al‑Ayyāshī (fl‑9th‑10th. cent. CE).

Among the foundational Shi`ī tafsīr works mention should be made of the partially extant though influential Shī`ī tafsīr works of Abū'l‑Naẓr Muhammad al‑Ayyāshī (fl‑9th‑10th. cent. CE) and the Tafsīr al‑Qur’ān of `Alī b. Ibrahīm al‑Qummī (d.10th cent.). It must suffice here to note that the latter work, includes comments upon the first set of isolated letters A‑L‑M (Alif‑Lā—Mīm,Q. 2:1), holding that they indicate "a portion of the letters of the ism Allāh al‑a`ẓam (The mightiest Name of God)" (Qummī,Tafsīr 1:43). Qummī’s Tafsīr includes many non‑literal, imamologically oriented interpretations. Rippin has noted that Qummī did not simply define "Islam" as "submission" to God but reckoned it submission to the authority of the Twelver Imams (Enc.Rel.14:241). Qummī’s interpretation of A‑L‑M (Q. 2:1 etc) was repeated in later Shī`ī Tafsīr works including the lengthy Persian Tafsīr Sharīf of the philosopher‑theologian student of Mullā Ṣadrā, `Abd al‑Razzāq al‑Lāḥījī (d. c.1072/1662). Lāḥījī explained these three isolated letters as an acrostic expressing the phrase anā Allāh al‑mulk (I am indeed God, the Sovereign)` (Tafsīr Sharīf I:7).

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al-Baṣrī, Ḥasan = Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d.110/728).

A "towering fīgure in Islamic thought" (Mourad 2006:3). See Ibn al-Nadim, Fihrist, 202; Sezgin GAL I: 592; Mourad, 51ff...

تفسير الحسن البصري

• Tafsīr al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. 2 vols. ed. Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥīm. Cairo : Dār al-Hadīth, 1992.
• Tafsīr Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. 2 vols. Ed. Dr. Muhammad `Abd al-Rahman. Cairo: Dār al-Haramayn. n.d. [1992]. *
• Tafsīr al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, 2 vols. ed. and comp. Dr. Muhammad `Abd al-Rahim, Cairo: Dār al-Ḥadīth, (1535)1412 /1992. *
• al-Qirā`a ("On the Qur'anic Readings"). mss.
• al-`Adad ("On the Number of Qur'a Verses"). mss.
• Nuzūl al-Qur'ān ("On the Occasions of Revelation"). mss.

Obermann, Julian.

• "Political Theology in Early Islam: Hasan al-Başrî's Treatise on Qadar." Journal of the American Oriental Society 55 (1935), 138-62.

Al-Ṭanţawī, 'Alī.

• Al-Ḥasan al-Basrī: namūdhaj li-l-ālim al-'āmil. Damascus: Lajnat Masjid Jāmi'at Dimashq, 1963.

Suleiman Ali Mourad

• Early Islam between Myth and History al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d.110H/728 CE) and the Formation of his legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship. Leiden- Boston: Brill, 2006. (339pp.).*

al-Harawī = al-Qāsim ibn Sallām ibn `Abd-Allah Abī `Ubayd al-Harawī (d. 157/224).

An early  Sunni Hadith  scholar and philologist.

• Kitāb Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān. (3rd printing) Damascus-Beirut: Dār Ibn Kathīr, 1420/1999. 478pp. incl. indexes. *
• Gharīb al-Ḥadīth.

al-Sakūnī =  Isma'il Ibn `Abī Ziyad al-Sakūnī (xxx/xxx; fl. 8-9 cent CE).

Imami Shi`i Kufan client and prolific transmitter of hadith from Imam Ja`far al-Sadiq. See Ibn al-Nadim, Fihrist, 36; Modarressi, T&S (2003), No. 116, pp. 304-5.

 

al-Ḥibarī, Abū  'Abdullah al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥakam (d. 286 / XXX).

• Mā nazal min al-Qur'ān fī ahl al-bayt. ed. `Alī al-Husayni. Qum:XXXX., 1975.
• Tafsīr al-Ḥibarī, ed. Muhammad  Rida al-Ḥusayni. Beirut: Mu`assasat Āl al-Bayt li-Iḥya al-Turath,  1987 (696pp.).

 Sahl al-Din al-Tustarī (d.283/896).

al-Ṭustarī (d. 283/896).

Sufi allegorical-mystical tafsīr is very closely related and at times identical to Shī`ī tafsīr. A non-literal hermeneutic is often adopted. The Tafsīr al-Qur’ān attributed to al-Ṭustarī is perhaps the oldest continuous Sufi tafsīr. It is related to but goes beyond the tradition of Ibn `Abbās. Commenting upon the isolated letter al-qāf in the sūra of the same name (Q. 50), Ṭustarī reckons that it outwardly (ẓāhir) indicates the first created, world-surrounding, Mt. Qāf (al-jabal, Tafsīr, 92). The creation in six days mentioned in the Sūrat al-ḥadīd (Iron, Q. 57:3 cf. Gen.1) is expounded relative to the "He is the First and the Last" and associated with the al-ism al-a`ẓam (most mighty Name of God), with the six verses which commence sūra 50 (Tafsīr, 98); (Bowering, 1980:145ff; Sells 1996:92-95).

Böwering, G.

• 1980 The Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Is­lam: The Qur'ānic Hermeneutics of the Sūfī Sahl At-Tustarī (d. 283/896).  Berlin:  Walter de Gruyter.

al-Ḥallaj : al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr (executed. 309 /922)

• حقائق التفسير او، خلق خلائق القرآن والاعتبار
• Ḥaqāʼiq al-tafsīr aw khalq khalāʼiq al-Qurʼān wa-al-iʻtibār. Cairo: Maktabat Madbūlī, 2006.
• Tafsir in Massignon, 1968, pp. 359–412
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Ninth century CE Tafsir,

al-Jubbā'ī = Abu 'Alī al-Jubbā'ī (d. 303/915)

• Tafsīr Abu 'Alī al-Jubbā'ī. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, [2000?].

Gimaret, Daniel.

• Une lecture Mu'tazilite du Coran: Le Tafsīr d'Abu 'Ali al-Djubbā'ī (m. 303/915), partiellement reconstitué à partir de

ses dtateurs. Louvain and Paris: Peeters, 1994. 890pp.

Furāt al-Kūfī  (d. c. 310/922).

Ibn Furāt al-Kūfī = Furāt Ibn Ibrahim ibn Furāt al-Kūfī. (fl. second half of the 3d/9th century).

See Tehrani, al-Dhari`a IV 298 no. 1309; Sezgin, GAS 1:539; Kohlberg 1992: 341. Cited in the Biḥār al-anwār of Majlisī.

For the author and his Qur'ān exegesis see GAS, 1: 539; Bar-Asher, pp. 37-39; the introduction by Muhammad al-Kāzim to his edition of the Tafsīr Furāt (Tehran, 1410/1990). (I am grateful to Dr. Bar-Asher for drawing my attention to this edition.) Muhammad 'Alî al-Gharawĩ al-Ūrdubādī states in his introduction to the Najaf 1354 edition of the Tafsīr Furāt that it was used by IT in the Yaqm; but it is not mentioned in Y. According to al-Kāzim (introduction, p. 13), no author before al-Majlisī (in the Bihar) is known to have cited from this Tafsīr, with the exception of al-Haskānī in his Shawahid al-tanzīl.

= Abu al-Qāsim Furāt ibn Ibrahim ibn Furāt al-Kūfī (early 4th cent AH/ 10th cent. CE).  

Important largely Hadith generated Shi`i Tafsīr writer. See Sezgin GAS 1:539; Bar-Asher, 1999:29f; Modarressi,  Tradition and Survival., 2003: 82-86.No.6. ; Meir M. Bar Asher, Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism (Leiden: Brill, 1999), 29-32:

• Tafsir. ed. Muhammad al-Kāẓim (?). Najaf: XXXX: 1354/1935.
• Tafsir. ed. Muhammad al-Kāẓim. Tehran: 1410/1990.
• Tafsir Furāt al-Kūfī. ed. Muhammad al-Kāẓim. Tehran: 1410/1990.  820pp.
• Tafsir Furāt al-Kūfī.  Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-Islāmī, ADD/ADD. 716pp
• Tafsir Furāt al-Kūfī. ed. Muhammad al-Kāẓim. Beirut:  Dar al-Kutub al-Islami, ADD/ADD 720pp..

"Furāt b. Furāt b. Ibrahim al-Kufī is the least known of the commentators that will be discussed here. He is not mentioned in early Shī'ī biographical compositions. From his nisba, we learn that he was associated with the city of al-Kūfa, although it is uncertain whether he was born there or lived there most of his life or at least part of it. The dates of his birth and death are also unknown. His chronology can be estimated on the basis of his relation to several scholars whose hadiths he transmitted or who transmitted hadiths on his authority. They include Abu 1-Hasan 'Alî ibn Babawayhi ([d. 3Z9/940], who according to certain sources transmitted traditions he received from Furāt), and his son, Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. 'Alî ibn Babawayhi (d. 381/991), the more renowned of the two, who also cites Furāt in his various writings (not directly but through the mediation of Hasan b. Muhammad b. Sa'īd al-Hāshimī)" (Bar-Asher, 1999:29 referencing, al-Mamaqani, Tanqib al-maqal, biography 9412; al-Khwansari, Rawdat al-jannat, 5:345; 'Abbas Quramĩ, al-Fawa'id al-radawiyya ft ahwāl 'ulama' al-madhhab al-ja'fariyya (Tehran, 1327Sh/1376), 349; A'yan, 41:170-271; Obana, 4:198-9; Tafsīr Furat (editor's introduction, 2)....

 

al-Farrā’ = Abū Zakariyya' Yaḥyā ibn Ziyād al-Kufi, al-Farrā' (d.207/822).

See Sezgin GAS VIII 123-5; Tehrani, Dharī`a IV 298 No. 1308 + XXI 206 No. 4635. Kohlberg, A Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work, Ibn Ṭāwūs and his Library (Leiden: Brill,   1992). Kohlberg writes,

"Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī [ d. 463/ 1070] mentions two recensions of this work: (a) that of Muhammad b. al-Jahm al-Simmarï (d. 277/890-891), who wrote at al-Farrā''s dictation (cf. Ta'rtkh Baghdad, II, p. 161); it is this recension which has been published (I, ed. Aḥmad Yûsuf al-Najātî and Muhammad 'Alī al-Najjār, Cairo, 1955, repr. 1980; II, ēd. al-Najjār, Cairo, 1966; III, ed. 'Abd al-Fått ah Ismacīl Shalabī and 'Alî al-Najdī Naşif, Cairo, 1972); (b) the recension of al-Farrā' 's student Salama b. 'Asim. Al-KhaţTb al-Baghdādī reports that after ál-Farra' had completed a session of dictation and the students had left, Salama would arrive and read back the material to ál-Farra', who would enter changes; al-Khatīb gives this as the reason for the differences between the two recensions ( Tā 'rīkh Baghdad, XIV, pp. 152-153).
IṬ [= Ibn Ṭāwūs] possessed two one-volume manuscripts of al-Farrā' 's work. The fīrst manuscript comprised seven parts (ajzā'), numbered ten through sixteen; the excerpts cited indicate that it contained roughly the second half of al-Farrā's text. The second manuscript, with an ijāza dated 409/1018-9, comprised seven parts (ajzā') numbered one through seven; judging by the excerpts cited, this manuscript contained the entire work" (Kohlberg 1992:340).

• Kitāb al-Farrā' = Tafsīr al-Farrā' = Ma'ānī’ al-Qur'ān. 3 vols. ed.  Muhammad 'Alī al-Najjār et. al. Cairo: Dar al-kutub al-Misriyya, 1955-72.
• Ma'ānī’ al-Qur'ān [= Tafsir al-Farrā'/ al-Qur'ān ] vol. 1 ed. Aḥmad Yūsuf al-Najātī and Muhammad 'Alī al-Najjār, Cairo: Add, 1955. Repr. 1980.
• Ma'ānī’ al-Qur'ān [= Tafsir al-Farrā '/ al-Qur'ān ] vol. 2 ed. Muhammad 'Alī al-Najjār, Cairo: Add, 1966
• Ma'ānī’ al-Qur'ān [= Tafsir al-Farrā'/ al-Qur'ān ] vol. 3 ed. 'Abd al-Fåṭṭāḥ Isma`īl Shalabī and 'Alî al-Najdī Nāşif, Cairo: Add., 1972.

Kinberg, Naphtali (1948-1997).

• A Lexicon of Al-Farrā's Terminology in His Qur'ān Commentary: With Full Defī nitions, English Summaries, and Extensive Citations by Naphtali Kinberg. Leiden: E. J. Brill,  1995   (27+1004 pp.). A massive and erudite work with introduction and full bibliography (pp. 24-27).

10TH CENTURY TAFSIR WRITERS

al-Ṭabarī, Muhammad ibn Jarīr (d. 310/922),

The Arabic Tafsīr of al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/ 922) and its Persian recreation.
The foundational, massively erudite, Jāmi`al-bayān `an ta’wīl āy al-Qur’ān (The Assembling of the Exposition of the Exegesis of the verses of the Q.) of Abū Ja`far Muhammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī demands mention. It is cited approvingly in many Shī`ī sources including the Biḥar al-anwār of Majlisī. Drawing on the accumulated mass of exegetical traditions, al-Ṭabarī incorporates paraphrased biblical history and Isra’iliyyāt or Islamo-Biblical exegetical traditions often as relayed by Wahb b. Munabbih from the ahl al-kitāb (Newby 1980: 688). Though he avoids the direct citation of both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament he does make considerable use of biblical paraphrase including a "detailed account of the story of the conquest of Canaan by Joshua"1 and of Gospel narratives of Jesus’ life and miracles. In upholding the post-qur’ānic notion of the literal taḥrīf ("corruption", "falsification") of both parts of the Bible, he had a negative effect on the Muslim view of the Bible (see below).

al-Ṭabarī, Muhammad b. Jarīr (d. 310/922),

• Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī, aw, Jāmi' al-bayān 'an ta'wīl āy al-Qur'ān. ed.  Maḥmūd Shākir Ḥarustānī ; ʻAlī ʻĀshūr Ḥarustānī. Beirut: Dār Iḥyā al-Turāth al-`Arabī. 1421/2001.
• Muhammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d.310/923) entitled Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āy al-Qurʾān (vol.  [30] page 204f in the Beirut 1421/2001 edition.

•  Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āy al-Qurʾān
• Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī, aw, Jāmi' al-bayān 'an ta'wīl āy al-Qur'ān. ed.  Maḥmūd Shākir Ḥarustānī ; ʻAlī ʻĀshūr Ḥarustānī. Beirut: Dār Iḥyā al-Turāth al-`Arabī. 1421/2001.
• Taʾrīkh, ed. M. J. de Goeje et al. Leiden, 1879–1901, ed. M. A. F. Ibrāhīm (Cairo, 1960)
• Tarikh = Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa’l-mulūk, 15 vols. Dār al-Fikr 1988/1408.
• Eng. tr., = The History of al- Ṭabarī, by various translators, general ed., E. Yarshater, 37+1 vols. projected. Albany, N.Y: SUNY, 1985-98.
• Tarikh (Per. 1987)           1366/1987.  Tārīkh-i nāmih-yi Ṭabarī.  3 Vols.  Ed. Muḥammad Rawshan. Tehran:  Nashr-i Naw.
• Tarikh (Per. 1995) 1374/1995 Tārīkhnāmih-i Ṭabarī.  2 Vols.  Ed. Muḥammad Rawshan.  Tehran: Surūsh.
• History tr. Rosenthal.    The History of al-Tabarī, vol. 1 (General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood), Albany. SUNY. 1989.
• History  tr. Brinner, W.  vol. 2  (Prophets and Patriarchs), Albany, SUNY, 1987.
• History tr.  Brinner, W.  vol. 3 (The Children of Israel), Albany, SUNY, 1991
• History tr.  Perlman. M.  vol. 4  (The Ancient Kingdoms), Albany, SUNY. 1987.
• Review of: The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. I: General Introduction and from the Creation to the Flood + Review of: The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. II: Prophets and Patriarchs by Reuven Firestone; Franz Rosenthal; William M Brinner in Journal of the American Oriental Society, Jul. - Sep., 1993, vol. 113, no. 3, p. 461-462.

Bal'amī, Abū `Alī (d. c.387/997).

He was among a group of `Ulama' who translated-"recreated" al-Ṭabari's Arabic Tarikh ... into Persian. See al-Tabari below.

• Tar’īkh, an abridged translation of al-Ṭabarī's Ta'rīkh al-rusul wal-mulūk (q.v.), part I (the pre-Islamic section), ed. Muḥammad-Taqī Bahār. Tehran: Ministry of Education, 1962;
• Part 11 (the Islamic section), 3 Vols. Tehran: Nashr-i Naw, 1987.
• 1974 Tarīkh-i Bal'amī. ed. Muḥammad Taqī Bahār. rev. ed. Muhammad Parvin Gunabadī 2nd edn. Tehran: Zavvār. 1984
• Trans. H. Zotenberg. 1984. Les prophètes et les rois de la création à David. Paris: Sindbad. 1994
• Tārīkh nāmih i Ṭabarī: bakhsh-i chāp-nāshudih. ed. Muḥammad Rawshan. 3rd edn. Tehran: Nashr-i Alburz.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muhammad ibn Isḥāq, (fl. 987.)

His Fihrist ("Index") contains important bibliographical data on early Tafsīr works.

• Kitâb al-Fihrist. Ed. Gustav Flügel. Leipzig 1871-72. I-II. (434 + 294 pp.) Repr. 2005 (Historiography and Classification of Science in Islam. 1-2). ISBN 3-8298-9003-6.

• al-Fihrist li'l-Ibn al-Nadīm, ed. Shaykh Ibrahim Ramadan,  Beirut:  Dār al-Fatwa/ Dār al-Ma`rifat, 1417/1997. *

• The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture. Bayard Dodge, editor and translator. (Records of civilization, sources and studies. no. 83) New York, Columbia University Press, 1970.  *

Shahrastanī Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Karim (         ).

mammad  ibn `Abd al-Karīm (   )

• Tafsir
• Milal = al-Milal wa’l-niḥal.  2 vols. Ed. Muhammad Sayyid Kīlānī. Beirut: Dār al-ṣa`ib, 1406/1987.

• Mafātīḥ al-asrār wa maṣābīḥ al-abrār. ed. Muḥammad ‘Alī Adharshab. Tehran: Iḥyā-i Kitāb, 1997

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Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Tayyib al-Bāqillānī ("Greengrocer"), (d. 413/1013).

Born Baṣra lived Baghdad. Malikī jurist and Ash`arite theologian who wrote over fī fty works (mostly lost). See R.J. McCarthy art. EI² I:958-9.

• I`jāz al-Qur'ān. Cairo: al-Matba`ah al-Salafī yyah, 1348/1930.
• I'jāz al-Qur'ān, ed. al-Sayyid Aḥmad Saqr, Cairo: ADD., 1954
• al-Inṣāf li'l-Qur'ān ("ADD ") ed. Shaykh al-Kawthari, Cairo: 1369/1950-53.
• al-Intiṣār li'l-Qur'ān ("ADD ") Kara Mustafa Pasha, Istanbul: 1369/1950-53.
• Nukat al-intişar li-naql al-Qur'ān, ed. Muhammad Zaghll Salām, Alexandria: ADD., 1971
• Kitāb al-Tamhīd fī radd `alā al-madhahib. ed. Khuḍayrī + Abū Rīdah. Cairo: Cairo: Dar al-fī kr al-`arabi, 1366/1947.
• URL = http://www.al-islam.org/sources/toc.asp?person=1537
• Kitāb al-Tamhīd al-awa'il wa takhlis al-al-dala'il. ed. `Imad al-Din A. Haydar. Beirut: Mu`asssat al-Kutub al-Thaqafīyya, 1987.

Bouman, J.

• Le conflit autour du Coran et la solution d al-Bāqillāni. Thesis Utrecht. Amsterdam 1959 (xi, 95 pp. )

`Abd al-Jabbār = al-Qaḍī `Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad `Abd al-Jabbār Asadābādī ( c. 386-415 AH = c. 935-1024 CE).

Major late Mu`tazilite theologian. See Sezgin 1:624-626.

• Mutashābih al-Qur'ān. ed. 'Andan M. Zarzũr. Cairo: Dar al-Turāth, 1969.
• al-Mughnī fī abwāb al-tawḥīd wa'l-`adl. 14 vols. ed. Taha Husayn, Cairo: Dar al-Misriyya li'l-Ta'lif wa'l-Tarjama. 1958-1965.
• al-Mughnī fī abwāb al-tawḥīd wa'l-`adl. XX vols. Cairo: al-Mu`assa al-Miṣriyya al-`Āmma li'-Kitāb. [Cairo] n.d. *
• al-Mughnī fī abwāb al-tawḥīd wa'l-`adl. Cairo: Dar al-kutub, 1370/1960. Rep. c. 2000?? Introd. Ibrahim al-Abyārī + Ibrahim Madkur, et. al. ed. Muhammad `Ali Najjār / `Abd al-Halim Najjār / Ṭāhā Ḥusayn. 16 vols. *
• Sharh al-usul al-khamsa bi-ta'lîq al-imam Aḥmad b. al-Husayn b. Abi Hāshim. ed. 'Abd al-Karim 'Uthmān. Cairo: Maktabat Wihba, 1965. : "This work is by 'Abd al֊ Jabbār's Zaydite student Manākdim" so Mourad 2006: 313)
• Sharh al-usul al-khamsa. ed. ADD Dar al-Ihya' a;-Turath al-`Arabi, 1422/2001 (567pp.). *

The Tafsir of Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Tusi (d.460/1067). 

The Tafsir of Muhammad  ibn Ḥasan al‑Ṭūsī (d.460/1067).

al-Ṭūsī,  Abī Ja`far  Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan = al-Shaykh al-Tā’ifa (d. 460/1067)

• Tafsir = al-Tibyan fi al-tafsir al-Qur’an.
• Tahdhīb al-aḥkām (The Rectification of Judgments). One vol. ed. Beirut: Mu`assat al-A`lamī l’l-Maṭbū`at, 1426/2005.
• Al-Istibṣār  fī-mā  ikhtilaf  min al-akhbār (“The Clarification regarding that over which there are diffwerences respecting the Traditions” ). One vol. ed. Beirut: Mu`assat al-A`lamī l’l-Maṭbū`at, 1426/2005.

Muhammad b. Ḥasan al‑Ṭūsī (d.460/1067) in his bulky (20 vol.) Shī`ī al‑Tibyān fī tafsīr al‑Qur’ān (The Clarification of Qur’ān Commentary) explains the verse "When the Lote‑Tree was covered with that which covered it" (Q. 53:16) as allusion to that which emanates from or covers the Sidrat al‑muntahā (Lote‑Tree of the Extremity). He states that "the Sidra (Lote‑Tree) was covered with al‑nūr (Light), al‑bahā’ (Splendour), al‑ḥusn (Beauty) and al‑safā’ (Purity) so delightful that there is no end to its depiction" (Tibyān, 9:432).

al-Mu'ayyad fī'l-Dīn Shirāzī (d. 470/1077).

Hibbat-Allāh Abū Naṣr ibn Mūsā al-Shirazi = al-Mu'ayyad fī 'l-Dīn Shirāzī (d.470/1077). Fāṭimid Isma'ili commentator. See Poonawalla EI² 5:270; Reynolds, 2001:145-155: Klemm 2003.

"A collection of 800 majālis in eight volumes, each containing 100 majālis on a variety of topics, dealing mainly with Ismaili ta'wïl, ethics, theology, philosophy and eschatology, including esoteric interpretations of Qur'ānic verses and ḥadith. These lectures were delivered by al-Mu'ayyad during the majālis al֊-ḥikma in Cairo." (Klemm 2003:114).

al-Mu’ayyad al-Shīrāzī.

• Sīrat al-Mu’ayyad fī al-Dīn dā‘ī al-du‘āt. Ed. M. K. Husayn. Cairo: Dār al-Kutub, 1949.

Ibn al-ʿArabī. = Abū  Bakr Muhammad ibn 'Abd-Allāh ibn al-'Arabī al-Ma`āfirī (d. 543/1092).

Andalusian Mailikī jurist and commentator who was qaḍī (judge) in his native Seville. He journeyed to Syria and Iraq and Egypt and was a one-time pupil of `Abd al-Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d.505/1111). See J. Robson EI2 III:707; McAuliffe, 2006 [CCQ] pp.194-196.

• [Tafsīr] Ahkām al-Qur'ān.
• [Tafsīr] Ahkam al-Qur'ān. Cairo: ADD., 1392-1972 (2nd ed.)
• Ahkām al-Qur'ān ("The Legal Rulings of the Qur'ān). ed. Muhammad 'Abd al-Qadir 'Aţa. 4 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah. 1408/ 1988. 2300pp.

Tafsīr Ahkam al-Qur'ān

• Qānūn al-Ta`wīl. ("The Modes of Interpretation"). 2nd ed. ed. Muhammad Slimani. Beirut: Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, 1411/1990. 459+ivpp.  *
• al-Qabbas XX Sharh Muwatta Malik ibn Anas. ADD . A commentary on the Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas.
• `Ardhwat al-akhwadhi fi sunnan al-Tirmidhi. 8 vols. ADD CHECK...
• al-Amad al-aqṣā ("The Furthermost Pillar"). On the Divine Names and Attributes. In mss. Rabat and Istanbul...
• Anwār al-fajr. ("The Light of ther Dawn"). Lost.
• al-Mashni, M. I.
   Ibn al-`Arabī al-Māliki al-Ishbīlī wa Tafsīruhu. Amman: Dar al-`Ammar, 1991.

al-Ghazālī Abū al-Ḥamīd, Muhammad (d. 505/1111). 

Ashari theologian and Sufī  mystic.

• Tafsir al-Qur’ān al- ‘Azim. Lost
• Tafsir Surat Yusuf. Persian Lithograph dated Sha`ban 1312/1895. See Gacek ALB 1996: Nos.365, p.202. 
• Tafsīr al-`Askari. Lucknow:  ?
• Jawahir al-Qur’ān. Dar al-Kutub al-`ilmiyya. ADD/ADD.
• Nahwa Tafsir mawḍu`i li-suwar al-Qur'an al-karīm. Cairo: Dar al-Shurūq, XXXX/1992 (155pp.).
• Nahwa Tafsir mawḍu`i li-suwar al-Qur'an al-karīm. Cairo: Dar al-Shurūq, 4th ed. XXXX/2000 (552pp.).
• K. Arba`īn = Kitāb al-arba`īn fī uṣūl al-dīn. Beirut: Dār al-Jīl. 1408/1988.

Mishkat al-anwār (The Niche of Lights).

• Mishkat al-anwār. (ed.) Abū `Alā `Afífī) Cairo: Dār al-Qaymíya li'l-abā`a wa'l-Nashara, 1383/1964.
• Mishkat al-anwār ("The Niche for Lights"). trans. W.H.T Gairdner. Rep. Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf. 1952 

Iḥyā' 'ulūm al-dīn (The Revival of Religious Sciences).*

Whittingham, Martin.

• Al-Ghazali and the Qur'an, One Book, Many Meanings. forthcoming Routledge 2007.

12TH  CENTURY SUNNI TAFSIR WORKS

al-Baghawī البغوي = al-Ḥusayn ibn Mas'ūd ibn Muhammad al-`Allama Abu Muhammad al-Farrā' al-Baghawī al-Shāfī 'ī (d. c. 510/1117 or 516/1122).

• XX
• XX
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Maybudī, Rashīd al-Dīn Abu al-Fadl (d. after 520/1126)

Author of an important ten volume early Persian Tafsīr work.

رشيدالدين ميبدى

This ten volume commentary explains the Qur'ānic verses in terms of (1) literal meaning, (2) historical and doctrinal background, and (3) spiritual signifīcance often exposing Sufī  teachings as derived from `Abd-Allāh al-Anṣārī of Herat (396-481 AH = 1006-1089 CE), author of the Ṭabaqāt al-ṣūfiyya;  Sad Maydan and Manā`zil al-sā'irin.

Masarrat, H.
Keeler, Anabel (Wolfson College, Cambridge).

al-Rāzī = Shaykh Abū’l-Futūḥ al-Rāzi (d. 525/1131).

= Ḥusayn b. 'Alī b. Muhammad b. Aḥmad al-Khuzā`ī al-Nisāpūrī (fl. between 480- 525 AH = 1087-1131 CE).

al-Rāzī = Shaykh Abū ’l-Futūḥ al-Rāzi = Ḥusayn b. 'Alī b. Muhammad b. Aḥmad al-Khuzā`ī al-Nisāpūrī (fl. between 480-525 AH = 1087-1131 CE).

Teacher of the Shi`i thinkers Ibn Shahrashūb and Ibn Babuya.  Early Qur'ān commentator in Persian, possibly a contemporary of Zamakshari (d.538/1144) whose Mu`tazilite orientation may have influenced him. See  Storey sec. I no.6; art. H. Masse, EI² Vol.1:120;

Teacher of the Shi`i thinkers Ibn Shahrashūb and Ibn Babuya.
Early Qur'ān commentator in Persian, possibly a contemporary of Zamakshari (d.538/1144) whose Mu`tazilite orientation  may have influenced him. See Storey sec. I no.6; art. H. Masse, EI2 Vol.1:120;

• Rawḍ al-jinān wa rawḥ al-jinān. 5 vols., Qumm n. d.
• Rawḍ al-jinān wa rawḥ al-jinān. 2 vols. Tehran, 1905 + 3 vols. 1937 + I282-7/ 1962-5
• Tafsīr Abū al-Futūḥ Rāzī Tafsīr-i shaykhinā al-ajall Abū al-Futūḥ Rāzī, bi-taṣḥīḥ va ḥavāshī-i Mahdī Ilāhī Qumshahʾi. Tihrān : Kitābfurūshī va Chāpkhānah-i ʻIlmī, 1320-1322/ 1941-1943-4.
• Rawḥ al-jinān wa-rūḥ al-janān fī Tafsīr al-Qur'ān, 12 vols., Tehran,
• Rawḥ al-jinān wa-rūḥ al-janān fī Tafsīr al-Qur'ān, 20 vols., ed. Dr. Muhammad Jafar Yahaqqi + Dr. Muhammad Mihdi Nassih. Mashhad : Intisharat-i Astan-i quds-i Razawi. 1371-5/1992-6. *

Dr. `Askar Ḥuqūqī ( Ascar Hoghoughi)

• Tahqiq dar Tafsīr Abū ’l-Futūḥ Rāzi, 2 vols. Tehran: Danishgah Tehran, 1346/1967 = Publication de l'Université de Téhéran No. 1114,1
• Etude littéraire et interprétative du Commentaire de 'Abū -'ALFOTUH-é RÂZÎ Par Docteur Ascar Hoghoughi Professeur à l'Université de Téhéran Torn I-II, Imprimerie de l'Université de Téhéran 1967. *

al‑Zamakhsharī, Jār Allāh Abū al Qasīm (d. 538/1144).

His influential and  linguistically profound rationalist oriented commentary was entited

• al‑Kashshāf `an Ḥaqā’iq  (The Disclosure  of Realities) ADD
• A Traditional Mu'tazilite Qur'ān Commentary by Andrew J. Lane: ”Based mainly on primary sources and manuscript evidence, this book presents an in-depth study of the life and work of Jār Allāh al-Zamakhsharī (d.538/1144). More specifically, it examines the sources and history, contents and method of his Qurʾān commentary, Kashshāf.”

 

al-Ṭabarsī, Abū `Alī al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan ( d. 548/1153).     

 

 al-Tabrīsī [al-Ṭabarsī],  Abū `Alī al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan ( d. 548/1154).     

Abū `Alī al‑Tabarsī (d. c. 548/1153)

• Majma` al-Bayān fī tafsīr al-Qur’ān. 10 vols. in 5. Beirut: Dār al-Murtaḍā’ [`Ulūm], 1427/2006,  

مَجمَعُ البَیان فی تَفسير القُرآن

• Majma` al‑bayān li‑`ulūm al‑Qur’ān (The Compilation of the Explanation of the Sciences of the Qur’ān)
• Majma` al-Bayān fī tafsīr al-Qur’ān.  ed. Hāshim al-Rasūlī and Faḍl Allāh al- al-Ṭabaṭabā’ī al-Yazdī. 10 vols. Mashhad: al-Ma`ārif al-Islāmiyya, XXXX/1976.
• Majma` al-Bayān fī tafsīr al-Qur’ān.  5 vols. Qumm: Maktabah `Ayat-Allāh Uzmā al-Mar`ashī al-Najafī. 1403/ 1982.
• Majma` al-Bayān fī tafsīr al-Qur’ān.  ed. Hāshim al-Rasūlī and Faḍl Allāh al- al-Ṭabaṭabā’ī al-Yazdī. 10 vols. Mashhad: al-Ma`ārif al-Islāmiyya,  Beirut: Dār al-Murtaḍā’ [Dār al-`Ulūm] 1427/2006.
• Majma` al-Bayān fī tafsīr al-Qur’ān.  ed. Hāshim al-Rasūlī and Faḍl Allāh al- al-Ṭabaṭabā’ī al-Yazdī. 10 vols. Mashhad: al-Ma`ārif al-Islāmiyya,  Beirut: Dār al-Murtaḍā’ [Dār al-`Ulūm] 1427/2006.
• Ihtijaj = al-Iḥtijāj.  2 vols. In 1.  Beirut: Mu`assat al-A`lamī. 1403/1983.

Returning to a Shī`ī tafsīr work, the Majma` al‑bayān li‑`ulūm al‑Qur’ān (The Compilation of the Explanation of the Sciences of the Qur’ān) of the Shī`ī theologian Abū `Alī al‑Tabarsī (d. c. 548/1153) has been called a Shī`ī "encyclopedia of Qur’ānic sciences" (O. A. Abdul, 1977:78). Here al‑Ṭabarsī presents in Arabic characters a Hebrew transliteration of the biblical etymology of the tetragrammation ( Yahweh  יַהְוֶה‎  = Y‑H‑W‑H, Yahweh), (= `ehye `āsher `ehye, Exod. 3:14a, loosely), "I am that I am" (RSV). He considered it one of the forms of the al‑ism al‑a`ẓam (Mightiest Name [of God]), said in Arabic to be yā ḥayy yā qayyūm     يا  قيوم      يا  يا حي(O Living One! O Self‑Subsisting!)   (Ṭabarsī, Majma` XIX:226). In one of his many alwāḥ to oriental Jews, BA* reflected such sources when he used the Arabic transliteration add for אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, and transliterated the (unvowelled) tetragrammaton يهوه (= Y‑H‑W‑H) (BA* Ma’idih 4:40; Lambden, 1983:22ff; 1988:66f,155f).

al-Ḥillī,  Shaykh `Abū `Abd-Allāh Muhammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Idrīs Ibn Ḥusayn Ibn Qasim Ibn `Īsā' al-Ijlī (fl. 6th cent. AH/13th cent. CE).

• al-Muntakhab min Tafsīr al-Qur'ān. vol.1  ed. Sayyid Maḥdī al-Rijā'ī + Sayyid Mahmūd al-Marashi'  Qumm: Maktabat `Ayat-Allah al-Marashi', 1409/1988-9. *

SUNNI TAFSIR WRITERS - 1200-1300.

al-Rāzī, Muhammad ibn `Umar, Abū  al-Su`ud Muhammad ibn, Muhammad Fakhr al-Dīn (d. 606/1210).

al-Rāzī, Muhammad ibn `Umar, Abū al-Su`ud Muhammad ibn, Muhammad Fakhr al-Dīn (d. 606/1209 )
G. C. Anawati, 'Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī' EI2 vol. 2:751-5
تفسير مفاتيح الغيب ، التفسير الكبير  

Al-Rāzī, Abū-ʻAbdallāh Muhammad ibn 'Umar, Fakhr al-Dīn (b. Rayy, 544/1149 - d. 606/1210).

• Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb... [Cairo] Būlāq: xxxxx., 6 vols. 1279-1289 AH =1862-1872 CE.
• Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb al-mushtahir bi'l-Tafsīr al-kabīr, ? vols. Cairo, 1286/1869.
• al-Tafsīr al-kabīr... 8 vols. [Cairo] Būlāq: xxxxx., 1279-1289/ 1862-1872.
• Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb al-mushtahir bi'l-Tafsīr al-kabīr. 8 vols. [Istanbul]: `Ali Beg Press, 1294 /1876.
• Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb al-mushtahir bi'l-Tafsīr al-kabīr. 8 vols. Istanbul: Dār-al-Tab`ah al-Amīra, 1308 /1890.
• Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb, al-Tafsīr al-kabīr. Egypt: Khairiyya Press, 1307-8/1891-2. Includes in the margin the commentary of Abū al-Sa`ūd al-ibn Muhammad al-Imādī.
• al-Tafsīr al-kabīr... 6 vols. (?) Cairo: Sharafiyya Press, 1308/ 1890. Includes in the margin the commentary of Abū al-Sa`ūd al-ibn Muhammad al-Imādī.
• al-Tafsīr al-kabīr... 6 vols. (?) Cairo: 1310/ 1892.
• al-Tafsīr al-kabīr... 6 vols. (?) Cairo: xxxxx., 1327/ 1909.
• al-Tafsīr al-kabir (The Extensive Commentary ) [= Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb "Keys to the Unseen" ) 32 vols. Cairo: al-Matba'ah al-Bahlyah al-Misriyya, n.d.
• al-Tafsīr al-kabīr. 32 vols. Cairo: al-Maţba'ah al Bahlyah al-Mişrîyah, n. d.
• Al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr li-Imam Fakhr al-Rāzī  [= Mafātīḥ al-ghayb] .
• al-Tafsīr al-kabīr (= Mafātīh al-Ghayb), ed. Muhammad Muḥyī al-Dīn `Abd al-Ḥamīd, 32 vols, in 16, Cairo: al-Matba`a al-Misriyya, 1352/1933. This edition has been reprinted in Tehran.
• al-Tafsīr al-kabīr (Mafātīh al-ghayb). 32 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Fīkr, 1981.
• al-Tafsīr al-kabir (The Extensive Commentary), Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya,, 32 vols in 16. XXXX/1990,
• Al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr li-Imam Fakhr al-Rāzī. 11 vols. 3rd ed. Beirut: Dār Iḥya al-Turāth al-`Arabī. 1420/1999. 
• al-Tafsīr al-kabir (The Extensive Commentary), (3rd printing) Beirut: Dār al-Ihya al-Turath al-`Arabi, 32 vols in 16. n.d. *
• Tafsīr-i kabir-i Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb, Persian trans. `Ali Asghar Ḥalabi, Tehran : Intishārāt-i Aṣāṭīr , 1371/XXX. / vol. 4 1378/ 1999. only*  = Taʻaddud al-maʻná fī al-naṣṣ al-Qurʼānī : dirāsah dalālīya fī tafsīr Mafātīḥ al-ghayb lil-Imām Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzi. Ed.̄ Īhāb Saʻīd Najmī al-Minūfīyah [Egypt] : Balansīya lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2008.

Arnaldez, Roger.

• "Les Chrétiens selon le commentaire coranique de Rāzī." In Mélanges d'islamologie dédiés à la mémoire de Armand Abel. Edited by P. Salmon, pp. 45-57. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974.

Ismā‘īl, ‘Izz al-Dīn

• Nusūs Qur'ānīyah fī'l-nafs al-insānīyah. al-Dār al-Baydā' : Dār al-Nashr al-Maghribīyah, 1976. (232pp.

Bū ‘Azīzī, Muhammad al-‘Arabī

• Nazarīyat al-ma‘rifah ‘inda al-Rāzī min khilāl tafsīrih. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr al-‘Arabī, 1999 (432pp.).

Shalahudin Kafrawi

• Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi's Methodology in Interpreting the Qur'ān. Global Academic Pub., 2002 ISBN = 1586841793

Rahbar, Daud,

• Indices to the verses of the Qur'ān in the commentaries of al-Tabarī and al-Rāzī . Hartford, Conn., Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1962 (iv+106 pp.). Based on al-Tabari, Būlāq edition 1323-1329 AH. and Maimuriyya Press edition Egypt, 1321 and on Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb,

Rahbar, Daud.

• Indices to the Verses of the Qur'ān in the Commentaries of al-Tabari and al-Razi. Hartford, Conn. USA : The

 Lagarde, Michel.

• Index Du Grand Commentaire De Fahr Al-Din Al-Razi. (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten, 0169-9423 ; 22. Bd. = Handbook of Oriental Studies- Handbuch Der Orientalistik). Leiden ; New York : E. J. Brill, 1996. "This work contains indexes of the proper names and the subjects of the Great Commentary of Fahr al-Din al-Razi, which comprises 32 volumes and forms an immense encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, invaluable for the knowledge of Classical Islam. The work is based on the Beirut  edition (1981), but it contains a synopsis which allows for the use of the editions of Cairo (1933) and Teheran (n.d.). In the introduction, one finds a synthesis of the text's important elements, the statement of exegetical principles of the Great Commentary, and information relating to its chronology and authorship"

‘Abd al-Rahmān, Muhammad Ibrāhīm

• Manhaj al-Fakhr al-Rāzī fī al-tafsīr bayna manāhij mu‘āsirīh- murāja‘at wa-taqdīm Yū suf Hasan Nawfal . [Cairo] Madīnat Nasr : al-Sadr li-Khidmāt al-Tibā‘ah, 1989 (261pp.).

Hindāwī Aḥmad, et. al. (ed.)

• al-Mabāhith al-bayānīyah fī Tafsīr al-Fakhr al-Rāzī : dirāsah balāghīyah tafsīlīyahed. ed. Hindāwī Aḥmad , Hindāwī Hilāl. Cairo : Maktabat Wahbah, 1999
• The great exegesis. Volume 1, The Fātiḥa =  Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Rāzī; Trans. Sohaib Saeed; Muʼassasat Āl al-Bayt li’l-Fikr al-Islāmī; Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge : The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought and the Islamic Texts Society, 2018.

Ismā‘īl, ‘Izz al-Dīn

• Nusūs Qur'ānīyah fī'l-nafs al-insānīyah. al-Dār al-Baydā' : Dār al-Nashr al-Maghribīyah, 1976. (232pp.).

Muhibbu-Din, M. A. 1997.

• `An assessment of Imām Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī's contribution to philosophical theology in his al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr' in Hamdard Islamicus, 20 (1997) Issue iii, pp.77-85,

Schub, M. B. 1981.

• `A sublime subtlety? (Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī on Qur'ān 55, 58.)' in Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 6 (1981), 72-73

McAuliffe, J.D. 1990

• `Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī on āyat-jizyah and āyat al-sayf’ in M. Gevers, ed. 1990, 103-118.*

Iskenderoglu, Muammer

• Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Thomas Aquinas on the question of the eternity of the world. Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2002

Kafrawi, Shalahudin

• Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi's Methodology in Interpreting the Qur'ān 2002. Methodology of Qur'ānic Interpretation: Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi's Exegetic Principles. 2006.

Rūzbihān al-Baqlī [Shirazi] = Rūzbihān Abū Muhammad ibn Abī Naṣr al-Baqlī al-Fasawī al-Kāzarūnī
(522-606 AH= 1128-1209 CE). See above on Maybudi
Persian mystical theorist, philosopher and Qur'ān commentator. See his Kashf al-Asrar... (ed. 2006 + bib.).
Laṭā'if al-bayān min [fi] Tafsīr al-Qur’ān.

• `Arā’is al-bayān fī ḥaqā’iq al-Qur’ān, + Tafsīr ascribed to Ibn al-`Arabi [=`Abd al-Razzaq al-Kashani]. Lithograph, 2 vols. Cawnpore : ADD, 1301/1884. Check this.
• `Arā’is al-bayān fī ḥaqā’iq al-Qur’ān, + Tafsīr ascribed to Ibn al-`Arabi [=`Abd al-Razzaq al-Kashani]. Lithograph 2
• vols. (pp.619+418). Lakhna`u = Lucknow : Matba` al-Munshī Nawal Kishūr., Sha`ban, 1301/1883-4. See Brockelmann GAL I:527+ Supp. I:735; Gacek ALB [1996] No. 10 p.17.
• Arā'is al-Bayān fi haqā'iq al-Qur'ān. Lucknow: Maṭba` al-Munshi Nawal Kishur, 1315/1897. Lithograph edition. 619+488pp (with the Ibn al-`Arabi- Kashani Tafsīr). See Brockelmann GAL I:527+ Supp. 1:725; Gacek, 1996 No. 10 p. 17.
• Arā'is al-Bayān fi haqā'iq al-Qur'ān. 3 vols. ed. Shaykh Aḥmad Farīd al-Mazīdī, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 2008. 1664pp.

Godlas, Alan Arthur.

• The `Arā’is al-bayān, the Mystical Qur’ānic Exegesis of Rūzbihān al-Baqlī. Ph.D. dissertation, Berkeley, 1991.
• `Psychology and Self-transformation in the Sufī Qur’ān Commentary of Rūzbihān al-Baqlī,' in Sufī Illuminations, vol.1:1 (1996) 31-62.

Firoozeh Papan-Matin in collaboration with Michael Fishbein,

• The Unveiling of Secrets Kashf al-Asrār, The Visionary Autobiography of Rūzbihān al-Baqlī (1128-1209 A.D.).Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2006.(pp.1-47 Engliah+1-123 +Index = Persian text of Kitab Kashf al-asrār). *

Ibn al-ʿArabī. Abū `Abd-Allah Muḥammad ibn `Ali ibn Muḥammad ibn al-'Arabī al-Ḥātimī  al-Ṭā’ī  (b. Murcia 560/1165- d. Damascus 638/1240).

Tomb of Ibn `Arabī [ in Glass case] in Mount Qasyun Damascus

 أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن محمد بن العربي الحاتمي الطائي

Ibn al-'Arabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn = Abū `Abd-Allah Muḥammad ibn `Ali ibn Muḥammad ibn al-'Arabī al-Ḥātimī  al-Ṭā’ī  (b. Murcia 560/1165- d. Damascus 638/1240).

The "Great Shaykh" (al-Shaykh al-Akbar), the Sunnī central figure in Islamic mysticism. He had a tremendous, foundational influence upon the Sufī  and Shi`i mystical and exegetical worlds.  There is a great deal of Tafsīr in the numerous works of Ibn al`Arabī especially his massive magnum opus the al-Futuḥāt al-Makkiyya ("Meccan Disclosures") and his well-known Fusūs al-Ḥikam ("Bezels of Wisdom")

• :http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/ibnarabi.html]
• Tafsīr, Istanbul, Suleymāniye-Shehid Alī Pasha, ms. #62 (wrongly ascribed). ] Raḥmat min al-Raḥmān fī tafsīr wa-ishārāt al-Qur'ān, compiled by Maḥmūd Maḥmūd Ghurāb, 4 vols., Damascus, 1410/1989.
• Tafsīr sūrat Yūsuf (Commentary on the Sūra of Joseph) see Osman Yahya, 1964, vol. 2:484 No 734a). ms.
• Qiṣṣat Yūsuf fī'l-Ḥaqīqa ("The Reality of the Story of Joseph") (ibid vol. 2 : 422-3 no. 574). mss Tafsīr āyat al-kursī (Commentary on the Throne Verse = Q. 2:256 (see Yahya ibid. ii no. 728).ms.
• Tafsīr āyat al-nūr (Commentary on the Light Verse = Q. 24:35 ; see also Yaḥya ibid 482, no 729) ms.
• al-Nāsikh wal-mansūkh fi'l-Qur'ān al-Karim. Research by A. al-`Alawi al-Madghari. [Cairo] 1413/1992. 2 vols. (3+260; 2+470 pp).

`Ajā'ib al-`irfān fī tafsīr ījāz al-bayān fī tarjamah `an al-Qur'ān. *

In his `Ajā'ib al-`irfān fī tafsīr ījāz al-bayān fī tarjamah `an al-Qur'ān ("The Wonders of Gnosis in Exegesis of the Inimitability of the Exposition in Clarification of the Qur'an") the Great Shaykh writes on Q. 2:1 : "A-L-M. This is the Book..." :

"These [initial] three [isolated] Letters [A-L-M] allude unto  al-wujūd ("Existence"). They all indicate  that the [letter] "A" (alif) alludes unto the [Divine] Dhāt (Essence) which is the Genesis of Existence (awwāl al-wujūd) through what transpires (`ala mā marr). The [letter] "L" (lām) alludes unto the  Active Intellect (al-`aql al-fa``āl) which is named Jibrīl (Gabriel). He is the pivotal centre of Existence (awsaṭ al-wujūd) who hath ever diffused grace (X f-d-l) from the  Beginning (al-mabdā')  and will ever confer grace unto the End [Eschaton] (al-muntahā).  The [letter] "M" (mim) alludes unto [the Prophet] Muhammad who is the Acme [Ultimate, Terminus] of Existence (ākhir al-wujūd) through whom the Cycle of Existence (dā'irat al-wujūd) is completed and united to its Genesis [Origin, Beginning] (awwāl). Wherefore is it sealed [completed] (khatama)! Thus he saith, "Time (al-zamān) hath indeed circled around like unto its [primordial] situation (hai'a) on the Day that He created the Heavens and the Earth".  Certain of his predecessors have it that the [letter] "L" (lām) is expressive of  twin [letter] "A"s (al-alfayn).... to be continued... (ed. p.31). trans. Lambden, 2009).

Ibn al-ʿArabī / `Abd al-Razzaq al‑Kashānī (d. c. 730/ 1330).

The Tafsīr commonly printed under Ibn al`Arabi's name is actually the work of his disciple `Abd al‑Razzāq al‑Kashānī (d. c. 730/1330). Modern printings are often unreliable.

• MS British Library Or. 6351 entitled `Ta'wllat al-Qur'ān' (Timurid period mss.).
• Tafsīr al-Shaykh al-Akbar al-`Arif billāh ta`āla al-`allāmah Muhyi al-Din ibn `Arabi. Būlāq : Dar al-Tiba`a. XXXX/1867.
• Tafsīr : It is included with the al-Kāzarūnī lithograph of his Arā'is al-Bayān fi haqā'iq al-Qur'ān. Lucknow: Maṭba` al-Munshi Nawal Kishur, 1315/1897, 619 + 488pp. See Brockelmann GAL I:527+ Supp. 1:725; Gacek, 1996 No. 10 p. 17.
• Tafsīr Ibn al-'Arabī, + Tafsīr of Khazin. 4 vols. Cairo: Maimaniyya press 1317/1899. (2+ 360 : 412 : 531 : 478 pp.).
• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-karīm, 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Yaqzah al-'Arabiyya, 1387/1967.
• Tafsir al-Qur'ān al-karim. [Ed. Dār al-Yaqza al-`Arabiyya]. Beirut 1387 / 1968. 2 volumes. (4+11+779 and2+880 pp).
• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-karīm. 2 Vols . Edited by Mustafa Ghalib. Beirut: Dār al-Andalus, 1399/1978 . *
• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-karīm [ Tafsīr Ibn `Arabi on cover ], 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-'Ilmiyya, 1422/2001.*

Studies of the [Ibn `Arabi = ] al-Kashani Tafsīr

 Lory, Pierre

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 al-Qunawī, Ṣadr al-Dīn Qunawi (d. 673/1274).  

 

al-Bayḍāwī = Qaḍī ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Bayḍāwī (d. Tabriz c. 700/1300).

بيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر

Commentator and author of the well-known Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta`wīl ("The Lights of the Revelation and the mysteries of the Exegesis")'. Sunnī, Mu`tazili commentator indebted to al-Zamakshari. Brockelmann, GAL Supp. 1: no. 27 pp. 738-732; Riddell, `al-Baydawi' in Leaman, Q-Enc.116-118. Brockelmann, GAL Supp. 1: no. 27 pp. 738-732; Riddell, `al-Baydawi' in Leaman, Q-Enc.116-118.

al-Bayḍāwī = Qaḍī ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Bayḍāwī (d. c. 700/1300).

انوار التنزيل واسرار التأويل  = Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta`wīl

("The Lights of the Revelation and the Mysteries of the Exegesis [of the Qur'an]")

• Anwar al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta'wīl, ed. H. O. Fleischer, 2 vols., Leipzig 1846-8.
• Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta`wīl al-ma`ruf bi-Tafsir al-Bayḍāwī. Lithograph 2 vols. in 1. Lakhnaw [Lucknow] : Niwai Kishur, 1865.
• Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta`wīl. 2 vols. Istanbul: ADD., 1285 /1868 (716 pp. + 628 pp.).
• Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta`wīl. +Tafsir of the Jalalayn. 2 vols. Istanbul: XXXX., 1296/1878 (2 +716 & 4 + 674 pp.)
• Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʾwīl. Istanbul : Ṣirkeal-i Khayrīye-i Ṣaḥḥāfīye, 1878. 2 pt = al-Bayḍāwī’s commentary on the Koran, accompanied in the margin by the Quranic commentary entitled Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maḥallī and Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī.
• Tafsir Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta`wīl. 2 vols. + Tafsir Jalalayn in the Margin. Istanbul: Dar al-Tiba`ah al-`Amirah 1285 /1886 (716 pp. + 628 pp.).
• al-Tafsir al-musammah Anwār al-tanzīl wa asrār al-ta`wīl ; ed. `Abd al-Rahman Muhammad. 5 vols. in 1 + Kazaruni in the margin Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-`Arabiyya al-Kubra, 1330/1911-12.
• Anwâr al-tanzîl wa-asrâr al-ta’wîl al-ma’rûf bi-Tafsîr al-Bayḍāwī,. (Includes Qur'ān text). Repr. Istanbul Lithograph,1329/ 1911. Beirut : ADD., c. 1970. (815pp. ).
• Anwar al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta'wīl.. Tafsir al-Bayḍāwī. Beirut: Dar al-Jīl, 1329/1911. (25+815+i pp.).*
• Anwâr al-tanzîl wa asrâr al-ta’wîl. + Tafsir of the two Jalals (Suyuti and Mahalli), 2 vols. ed. A. Sa’d ’Alî. Cairo: ADD., 1358 / 1939. (496+ 460pp.).
• al-Tafsir al-Bayḍāwī al-musamma anwār al-tanzīl wa asrār al-ta`wīl. 5 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1996.
• Anwar al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta'wīl. ed. Muhammad Şubhī ibn Ḥasan Hallaq and Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Atrash, Damascus: 1421/2000.
• Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar Bayḍāwī Book : Manuscript Archival Material Language: Arabic Publisher: Dizfūl, [1447]

al-Bayḍāwī = Qaḍī ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Bayḍāwī (d. c. 700/1300).

حاشيه : Ḥāshiyya (Marginal Notes- Glosses) on the Tafsir of al-Bayḍāwī, Qaḍī ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar Nāṣir al-Dīn (d. c. 700/1300). Sunnī commentator and author of the well-known Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta`wīl ("The Lights of the Revelation and the mysteries of the Exegesis").

Shaykh Baha'i - Baha' al-Din al-Amili - Shi`i Commentator (see above).

حاشيه انوار التنزيل قاضى بيضاوى

• حاشيه انوار التنزيل قاضى بيضاوى Hashiyya = Marginal Glosses of Shaykh Baha'i upon the Anwār al-tanzīl of Qaḍī Bayḍāwī

al-Qunavi (d. 1195/1781) + Ibn al-Tamciyd ...

• Hashiyya `ala Tafsir-i anvar-i tanzil by Qaḍī Bayḍāwī, by Qunavi (written in 1194 AH) with the marginal text of the Hashiyya `ala Tafsir-i anvar-i tanzilHashiya ala tefsiyr i anvar it tanzil of Qaḍī Bayḍāwī by Muslih al-Din Mustafa ibn ibrahim known as Ibn al-Tamciyd teacher of the Ottoman Sultan (ADD/ADD), 7 vols. Istanbul: al-Maṭba`at al-`Amira, 1285 -86/ 1868-21st Sha`ban = 26th November, 1869.

See further : Fell, Winand (1837-1908). Indices ad Beidhawii Commentarius in Coranum - confecit Winand Fell or Fihrist mā fī al-tafsīr al-musammā bi-Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-tāwīl. Leipzig : F.C.W. Vogel, 1878. 1 v. (various pagings) ; 30 cm. Added t.-p. in Arabic: Fihrist mā fī al-tafsīr al-musammā bi-Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-tāwīl min al-lughāt wa-al-iṣṭilāḥāt wa-asmāʾ al-rijāl wa-al-nisāʾ wa-al-amākin wa-al-milal wa-al-madhāhib wa-al-shawāhid [romanized form]. Beeston, A. F. L. Bayḍāwī’s commentary of Sûrah 12 of the Qur’ân. Text, accompanied by an interpretative rendering and notes by A. F. L. Beeston. Oxford 1963. ( viii+ 98 pp. + 24pp. Arabic text) + Beirut 1988

al-Ḥibarī,  `Abū `Abd-Allāh al-Kufī  al-Husayn ibn Hakam ibn Muslim (d. 686 /1287).

• Tafsīr al-Ḥibarī, Ed. Sayyid Muhammad Rida' al-Ḥusaynī. al-Jalali. Beirut: Mu`assassah Āl al-Bayt li'l-Ihya' al-Turath, 1408/1987.*

 

al-Baghawī   البغوي =  al-Ḥusayn ibn  Mas'ūd  ibn Muhammad al-`Allama  Abu Muhammad al-Farrā' al-Baghawī al-Shāfī 'ī (d. c. 510/1117 or 516/1122).

Shāfi`ī traditionalist born near Herat  died Marw al-Rudh.  See XXX  + Ridell, Peter G. art. `al-Baghawi' in Leaman ed.   Q-Enc pp.108-9. His  Sunni, al-Shāfī 'ī  Tafsīr work  is perhaps to some degree a condensed version of the Tafsīr of al-Tha`labī (d. 427/1035) (so Rippin, EI2 X:434).

• Ma'ālim al-tanzīl ("Instruction in the Revelation")   
•  Ma'ālim al-tanzīl [Instruction in the Revelation] / Tafsīr al-Baghawī... [Cairo] Būlāq 1294/1877.•Tafsīr al-Khazin al-musamma libab al-ta`wil fi ma`ani al-tanzil. 4 vols.  has Tafsīr al-Baghawi in margin.  Beirut: Dar al-Fikr,  1402/1982. *
• Ma'ālim al-tanzīl / Tafsīr al-Baghawī, al-musammá, Maʻālim al-tanzīl   4 vols. ed. Khālid ʻĀbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻAkk, Marwān Sawār. Multān : Idārat Taʾlīfāt Ashrafīyyah.  198? 
• Tafsīr al-Baghawī al-musammā bi-Ma 'ālim al-tanzīl,  4 vols. ed. Khālid ʻĀbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻAkk, Marwān Sawār.  Beirut: Dar al-Ma`rifa, 1987.
• Tafsīr al-Baghawī al-musammā bi-Ma 'ālim al-tanzīl,  4 vols. ed. Khālid 'Abd al-Rahmān al-'Akk and Marwān Sawār,  Beirut:  Dār al-Kutub al-`ilmiyya, 1414/ 1993.*

 

al-Qurṭubī, Abū  'Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Anṣarī, (d. 671/1273)

 Aisha Bewley; Abdalhaqq Bewley (ed.) trans.

 

al-Qunawī, Ṣadr al-Dīn (d. 673/1274). 

Key disciple of Ibn al-`Arabi and mystical exegete.

al-Baghdadi = `Alā' al-Dīn `Alī ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Baghdadi al-Sufi (d. 741/1340) = al-Khāzin.

 

 

al-Kāshānī [al-Qāshānī], `Abd al-Razzāq (d. 730/1330)
An important Persian fīgure in the school of Ibn al-`Arabi (see above) and the author of around forty fīve Arabic and Persian works including several Arabic writings centered on the allegorical-mystical exegesis of the Qur'ān or portions thereof.
His Tafsīr is commonly printed under Ibn al`Arabi's name. Thus:

• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-karīm, 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Yaqzah al-'Arabiyya, 1387/1967.
• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-Karīm. 2 Vols . Edited by Mustafa Ghalib. Beirut: Dār al-Andalus, 1399/1978 . *
• Tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-karīm lil-Shaykh al-akbar... al-`Allāmah Muḥyi al-Dīn Ibn al-`Arabī, ed. Mustafa Ghālib, 2 vols., 3rd printing, Beirut, 1401/1981.
• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-karīm [Tafsīr Ibn `Arabī on cover ], 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-'Ilmiyya, 1422/2001.*
• Risālah fī ta`wīl al-basmala ("Treatise on the Inner sense[s] of the Basmala"). mss.
• Tafsīr Ayat al-Kursī (Commentary on the Throne Verse) (Q.2:256). mss.
• Tafsīr Sūrat al-Jumu`ah (Commentary on the Surah of the Congregtion" ) [Q.62]. mss.
• Majmu`a-yi Rasā'il Muṣannāfāt, Shaykh Kamal al-Din `Abd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī (died 736 L.H.) edited by Majid Hadizadeh. Tehran: Āyene-yi Miras, 2000. (771pp.). Contains an over 250 page introduction on `Abd al-Razzaq

^{al-Khāzin, `Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Baghdadi al-Sufi (d. 725/1340).}

• Quran commentary written in 725 / 1325 = Tafsīr Khāzin =
• Lubab al-Ta`wīl fi ma`ānī al-tanzil. 4 vols. Cairo: al-Matba`at al-Maymaniyya, 1311/1893 + in margin Madarik al-tanzil va haqa'iq al-ta`wīl Abu'l-Barakaat `Abd-Allah Nasafi (d. 701/ 1301).
• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-Jalil... Lubab al-Ta`wīl fi ma`ānī al-tanzil. ed. Abi al-Barakat `Abd-Allah ibn Mahmud al-Nasafi. Beirut: Dar al-Ma`rifa, 1970.
• Tafsīr al-Khazin al-musamma libab al-ta`wil fi ma`ani al-tanzil. 4 vols. has Tafsīr al-Baghwi in margin. Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1402/1982. *
• Tafsīr al-Khazin... 4 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 1995..Check..

Mukhtasar Tafsīr al-Karim li'l-Khazin ...2 vols. (1251pp.) Lubab al-Ta`wīl fi ma`ānī al-tanzil. ed. Muhammad `Ali Qutb. Beirut: Dar al-Masira, 1987.

 

Ibn Taymiyyah = Taqi al-Din, `Abū 'l-`Abbās Aḥmad ibn `Abd-Allāh al-Halim  (d.728/1328).

• XX
• XX

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Shams al-Din = Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr (d. 751 /1350).

 Hanbali jurist and disciple of Ibn Taymiyya.

• Al-Tibyan fi Aqsam al-Quran التبيان في أقسام القرآن

Rashīd al-Dīn [Ṭabīb] Faḍl Allāh Hamdānī (d. 718/1348).

    

A learned and polymathic Jewish convert to Islam and one time physician to various Mongol Sultans. Rashīd al-Dīn is best known as a world historian though he wrote much in Persian and Arabic on a variety of subjects. His writings include sometimes lengthy Persian treatises on Qur'ānic verses.

Rashīd al-Dīn, Faḍl-Allāh Hamadanī (d. 718/1318). Jewish convert to Islam and important world historian and physician to certain of the Mongol Sultans.

• Jāmi` al-tawārīkh ("The Assemblage of Histories"), a work completed around 1307 CE. An important Persian language world history source with much of importance on issues within Islamic and pre-Islamic history from the time of Adam, the Islamo-biblical father of humankind.
• Jāmi` al-tavārīkh (History of Banī Isrā’īl ) ed. and annotated Muhammad Rushan. Tehran: Mīrās-i Maktūb, 2007 (= History and Geography  No. 27).
• Jāmi` al-tavārīkh (History of Afranj, Popes and Caesars ) ed. and annotated Muhammad Rushan. Tehran: Mīrās-i Maktūb, 2005 (= History and Geography  No. 20)
•  

Blair, Sheila S.,  

• A Compendium of Chronicles: Rashīd al-Dīn's Illustrated History of the World (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XXVII). Oxford University Press, USA., 1995

•  

al-'Āmulī, Sayyid Ḥaydar ibn `Alī ibn Ḥaydar al-`Alawī al-Ḥusayni al-'Āmulī (d. 787/1385).

Shi`i philosopher and mystic... exponent of Ibn al-`Arabi... See Brockelmann, GAL II:213; Supp. II:209.

• Tafsīr al-muḥīṭ al-a`ẓam wa'l-baḥr al-khidamm fi ta`wīl kitāb Allāh al-`azīz al-muḥkam. 2 vols. 2nd ed./printing. Tehran: Mu`assasat al-Tiba`ah wa'l-Nashr Wizarat al-Thaqafah wa'l-Irshad al-Islami, 1995.
• انوار الحقيقة و اطوار الطريقة و اسرار الشريعة = Anwar al-Haqiqah wa Atwar al-Tariqah wa Asrar al-Shariah. Qum: Nur `ala Nur, 2004.
• تفسير المحيط الاعظم و البحر الخضم في تاويل كتاب الله العزيز المحكم
• Tafsir al-Muhit al-`A`zam va al-Bahr Fi Ta`vil Kitab Allah al-`Aziz al-Muhkam / 7 vols.
• Tafsīr al-Muhit al-a`zam wa al-bahr al-Khiḍrim fi Ta`wil Kitab Allāh al-`Aziz al-Muhkam. 7 vols. Qum: Nur `ala Nur 2007 . 2974pp. ISBN: 9789648016031
• Tafsīr al-muḥīṭ al-a`ẓam wa'l-baḥr al-khidamm fi ta`wīl kitāb Allāh al-`azīz al-muḥkam. 2 vols. 2nd ed./printing. Tehran: Mu`assasat al-Tiba`ah wa'l-Nashr Wizarat al-Thaqafah wa'l-Irshad al-Islami, 1995.
• Tafsir al-Muhit al-a`zam wa al-bahr al-Khiḍrim fi Ta`wil Kitab Allāh al-`Aziz al-Muhkam. 7 vols. Qum: Nur `ala Nur 2007 . 2974pp. ISBN: 9789648016031
• انوار الحقيقة و اطوار الطريقة و اسرار الشريعة = Anwar al-Haqiqah wa Atwar al-Tariqah wa Asrar al-Shariah. Qum: Nur `ala Nur, 2004.

al-Fīrūzābādī =  Abū al-Qāhir Muhammad ihn Ya'qūb ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Majd al-Dīn al-Shirāzī al-Fīruzābādī al-Shāfi'ī (729- 817 AH = d.1329- 1414 CE). 

He is associated with the transmission of the Tafsīr attributed to Ibn `Abbās (see above) and is said to have written five other  works of Tafsīr. See  Brockelmann, EI II:113-14; Fleisch, EI2 II: 926-27.

• Tanwīr al-miqbas min tafsīr Ibn 'Abbās li-Abi Ṭāhir Muhammad ibn Ya`qūb al-Fīrūzābādī al-Shāfi'ī, Ṣāḥib al-Qamus... Cairo: al-Maktabah al-Tujjāriyya al-Kubrā., add DATE.
• Tanwīr al-miqbas min tafsïr Ibn 'Abbās, Cairo: ADD., 1951. In margin has (1) al-Suyuţî (d. 911/1505), Lubab al-nuqül fī asbāb al-nuzūl, followed by (2) Muhammad ibn Hazm, Kitāb fi ma'rifat al-nāsikh wa 'l-mansukh (not actually by Ibn Hazm). Rippin (1980) writes regarding printings of this work (p. 41)

"One of these works is entitled Tanwīr al-miqbas min tafsīr Ibn 'Abbās. Al-Dawūdī (d. 945/1538) and, probably repeating the information from him, Hājjī Khalifa (d. Ι068/Ι658) report that this was a four-volume work. Brockelmann  lists this work as printed in Cairo in 1290 and 1316, the latter edition being published along with the naskh text of Muhammad ibn Hazm;  Fleisch  then adds mention of a print in Cairo, 1345/1926. Sezgin in his entry on Ibn 'Abbas adds the following list of prints of this al-Fīrūzābādī text (under the supposition that it represents a transmission of Ibn 'Abbas's tafsïr): Bulāq, 1863,1866,1873,1885; Cairo, 1302,1316,1332, 1937, 1960. This list appears to be a somewhat updated restatement of what is found in Brockelmann under Ibn 'Abbas, although Sezgin does not make this explicit." (so Rippin, 1994 [2001]).

al-Kāshānī [al-Qāshānī], `Abd al-Razzāq  (d. 730/1330). 

An important Persian fīgure in the school of  Ibn al-`Arabi (see above) and the author of around forty fīve Arabic and Persian works including several Arabic writings centered on the allegorical-mystical exegesis of the Qur'ān or portions thereof. He wrote a treatise on the inner meaning of the basmala.

Ibn Kathir = 'Imād al-Dīn Abu al-Fida Isma'il ibn 'Urnar ibn Kathīr (701-774 AH =  1302-1373 CE).

ابن كثير، إسماعيل بن عمر

 

 al‑Jīlī, `Abd al‑Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jilī (d. c. 899/1428). 

 Shi`i Sufī  of the school of Ibn al-`Arabi. EI ² 

al‑Jīlī, `Abd al‑Karīm ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jilī (d. c. 899/1428).  See Brockelmann GAL., II 254-5. Shi`i Sufī  of the school of Ibn al-`Arabi.

• al-Kahf wa'l-Raqīm fī Sharḥ Bismillah al-Raḥman al-Raḥim. al-Maktabat al-Maḥmūdiyya al-Tijariyya. Cairo: XXX al-Jami` al-Azhar (32pp.).*
• al-Insān al-kāmil fī ma`rifat al-awākhir wa'l-awā'il. 2 vols in 1. Cairo: Mustāfa al-Bābī al-ḥalabī, 1375/1956. *
• Titus Burckhardt, De L-Homme Universal `Abd al-Karim al-Jili extraits du Livre al-Insan al-Kamil., Paris: Dervy Livres, 1975, 1986 (103pp.) *
• `Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī. Universal Man. Extracts translated by Titus Burckhardt. Beshara Publications, 1983 (75pp.). *
  Secondary Sources
  Zaydān, Yūsuf,
  ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, faylasūf al-Ṣūfīyah [Cairo] : al-Hayʾah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Kitāb, 1988. ( 266 pp.).

Charkhī, Khwāja Ya`qūb (d.851/1447).

• Tafsīr-i Kalām-i Rabbani,
• MS British Museum Or. 9490 dated 960/1553, "a beautifully ornate and complete work in naskhX and nastaliq;
• MS India Office Islamic 754, "dated 6 Jumāda II 1089/26 July 1678 which is in a rougher hand and has the first half of the proemium missing". (Rizvi,

On Charkhī and his tafsīr, see Hamid Algar, art. 'Carķī' in Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 4, pp. 819-20; C.A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-bibiographical Survey Volume I Part I (London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1970), p. 9. There are older lithographs of the exegesis, such as the one produced in Lahore in 1331/1913, and a new partial edition has been published (Istanbul: Yildiz, 1991). Other works of Charkhī that are important for the later Naqshbandï order include Risāla-уі unsiyya, ed. and tr. M. Nadhīr Rānjhā (Lahore: Zāhid Bashīr, 1983); Risala-yi Abdaliyya, ed. M. Nadhīr Rānjhā (Islamabad: Iran-Pakistan Research Institute, 1978).

Rizvi, Sajjad.

• `The Existential Breath of al-raḥman and the Munificent Grace of al-raḥim' in JQS 79

 

al-Biqa'ī. Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn 'Umar (d. 885/1480).

A Mamluk exegete.

• Nazm = Nazm al-durār fī tanāsub al-āyāt wa-l-suwar, 22 vols., Hyderabad 1969-84; repr. Cairo 1992
• Nazm al-durār Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyah, 1995
• Tanbih al-Ghabi ilā Takfir Ibn 'Arabī wa tahdhir al-'Ibad min ahl al-'inad ("Warning to the Ignoramus Concerning the Declaration of Ibn 'Arabi's Disbelief, and Cautioning God's Servants against Stubborn People"). An atack on Ibn `Arabi... See `Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute over al-Ghazali's 'Best of All Possible Worlds' by Eric L. Ormsby and review by Norman Calder in BSOAS (London), vol. 49, No. 1, In Honour of Ann K. S. Lambton (1986), pp. 211-212.

Saleh, Walid.

• `The Bible Islamized: A Muslim Hebraist-Evangelist at Work' presented at the Toronto conference, `A Forgotten Past: Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages'.
• Refer: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/medieval/ForgottenPast07/Pages/saleh.html

"In 1461, al-Biqa`i, a Mamluk exegete, decided to use the Bible to interpret the Qur'ān. This was an unprecedented decision which contradicted a millennium of Islamic prohibition against the religious use of the Bible by the Muslims. The Qur'ān commentary he wrote soon became the center of a major controversy as to whether it was legal or Islamic to use the Bible as a religious text in Islam. This paper is an analysis of this momentous development in the history of Islamic interaction with the scriptures of Judaism and Christianity. I will draw on two of al-Biqa`i's works to understand why he thought it was permissible to use the Bible and how he used it in his Qur'ān commentary."

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Jalālayn - see Tafsīr  Jalālayn : 

Jalāl al-Dīn al-al-Suyūṭī  (d.911/1505) + Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maḥallī (d. 864/1459)  

al-Īmādī, Muhammad ibn Muhammad Abū’l-Su`ūd  (d. 982/1574),

Abū al-Suʻūd Muhammad ibn Muḥammad, al-ʻImādʾu (XX= c. 1490-1574).

• Tafsīr Abī al-Suʻūd, Irshād al-ʻaql al-salīm ilá mazayá al Qurʾān al-karīm. 5 vols. in 2 1928.
• Tafsīr Abī al-Suʻūd, Irshād al-’aql al-salîm ilkh. ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad Mar’î ed. Muhammad al-Sādiq Qamhāwī. Beirut, c. 1976. 9 vols. in 4. (278, 2 + 265, 1+ 312+312+ 284, 3+ 308+ 288+ 271+ 220 pp.).

Fayḍī = Abū al-Fayḍ ibn al-Mubarak al-Fayḍī (d. 1004/1596).

• Sawāṭi` al-ilḥām fi Tafsir al-Qur'ān. Lithograph printing which includes Ḥall lughāt al-Tafsīr (pp. 753-771). Lakhna`u -Lucknow: Maṭba`at al-Munshī Nawal Kishūr, 1306/1889. (780pp.) See Brockelmann GAL II:549 + Supp.II:610; Gacek ALB [2003] No. 312, p.170.

Husayni, Kamāl-al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn `Alī,  Vā`iz-i Kāshifī (d. 910/1504–05).

• Tafsır-i Mullā

• Mavāhib-i  `Aliyya yā Tafsīr-i Ḥusaynī, ed. Muhammad Jalālī Nā’īnī, 4 vols., Tehran, 1317 Sh./1938. 

• Javahir a-Tafsir. Tehran: Miras-i Maktub, 1379/ADDD.

Sands, Kristin Zahra

• ` On the Popularity of Husayn Va`iiz-i Kashifi's Mavāhib-i fialiyya: A Persian Commentary on the Qur’an' in Iranian Studies, volume 36, number 4, December 2003, pp. 469-483.

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Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻIzz al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Shams al-Dīn (953-1030= 1547-1621 CE).

بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين عاملي

= Bahā' al-Dīn al-`Āmilī = Shaykh Bahā'ī. See URL: Shaykh Bahā'ī : Shaykh Bahā'ī

The son of Shaykh Ḥusayn ibn `Abd al-Ṣamad al-`Āmilī (919-984 AH = 1512-1576 CE) who was appointed Shaykh al-Islam at the then Safavid capital Qazvin by Shah Ṭahmasb (930-984 AH =1524-1576 CE). He was born near Baalbek 27th Dhu'l-Ḥijja 953 AH = 18th February 1547 CE and died Isfahan 12th Shawwāl 1030 AH = 30th August 1621 CE. A polymathic and widely traveled individual Shaykh Bahā'ī is viewed by some as the Islamic Mujaddid ("Renewer") of the 11th/17th century. He was an accomplished theologian, philosopher, mathematician, Sufi inclined mystic, architect, grammarian and more besides. He was a one-time Shaykh al-Islām at the then Safavid capital Isfahan under Shāh `Abbās I (r. 996/1588- 1038/1629). Shaykh Baha'i is a key Safavid period Shī`ī commentator whose Tafsīr works have been neglected. See Brockelmann, GAL II: 414-15; Supp. I:76, 741; Supp. II: 595-97. Kohlberg in EIr. III: 429-30.

Tafsīr `Ayn al-Ḥayat ("The Commentary of the Wellspring of Life").

تفسير عين الحيوة

• تفسير عين الحيوة = Tafsīr `Ayn al-Ḥayat ("The Commentary of the Wellspring of Life"). in ms.

al-`Urwat al-Wuthqā' ("The Firm Handle")

• العروة الوثقى = al-`Urwat al-Wuthqā' ("The Firm Handle"). This Tafsīr work seems only to have been a few times partially printed.
• al-ʻUrwah al-wuthqá [fī tafsīr Sūrat al-Ḥamd] in Rasa'il al-Shaykh Baha' al-Din Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn `Abd al-Samad al-Harithi al-ʻĀmili. Lithograph Tehran [?]: Hajj Shaykh Aḥmad Shirazi, 1319/1901[3], pp. 386-410
• al-ʻUrwah al-wuthqá [fī tafsīr Sūrat al-Ḥamd] in Rasa'il al-Shaykh Baha' al-Din Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn `Abd al-Samad al-Harithi al-ʻĀmili. Qum: Maktabat Baṣīratī / Intishārāt-i Baṣīratī, 1398/ 1978. pp. 386-410.
• al-ʻUrwah al-wuthqá : tafsīr Sūrat al-Ḥamd by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ʻĀmili. Qum : Dār al-Qurʼān al-Karīm, 1412/ 1992.
• al-ʻUrwah al-wuthqá fī tafsīr Sūrat al-Ḥamd... Qum : Qum: Būstān Kitāb, 1422 /2001.
• •علوم قرآنى = `Ulūm Qur'ānī. ("On The Qur'ānic Sciences") , in mss..
• حل الحروف القرآنيه = Ḥall al-ḥurūf al-Qur'ān ("On the status of the Qur'ānic [Isolated] Letters"), in ms.

Ms. UCLA Qayeni Coll. No. 21. "Shaikh Baha'i (Baha' al-Din Muhammad al-Amili, universal scholar and wazir of Shah 'Abbas the Great, died 1030 / 1621): "Sharh suwar al- Qur'ān" (Coranic commentaries); Arabic; varying, always well legible script w. red titles. Main body of text pp.29-318. Beginning, end, margins and pasted-in notes w. a wide variety of marginalia. - Semi-leather binding w. painted ornaments in orange and blue. - 397 pages of text; 14 l/p (main body of text); 190x125 mm. Scribe: Abu Turab Salim b. Rashid. Dated (pp. 47, 318, 369): 1110 and 1117 / 1698 and 1705." -

See URL :

Ḥāshiyya - Glosses on Qur'ān Commentaries.

• Bayḍāwī, Qaḍī ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar Nāṣir al-Dīn (d. c. 700/1300). Sunnī commentator and author of the well-known Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta`wīl ("The Lights of the Revelation and the mysteries of the Exegesis")
• حاشيه انوار التنزيل قاضى بيضاوى Hashiyya = Marginal Glosses of Shaykh Baha'i upon the Anwār al-tanzīl of Qaḍī Bayḍāwī
• Zamakhsharī, Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmud Ibn `Umar (d. 538/1144). Persian born Sunnī Mu`tazili Qur'ān commentator and author of the well-know al-Kashshāf 'an ḥaqā'iq ghawamid al-tanzi wa 'uyun al-aqawil fī wujuh al-ta 'wil,
• حاشيه كشاف زمخشرى Ḥashiyya = Marginal Glosses of Shaykh Baha'i upon the Kashshāf of Zamaksharī.

On the Tafsīr works of Shaykh Bahā'ī see ʻAbbās, Dalāl.

• Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī : Adīban wa-Faqīhan wa-ʻāliman, Beirut (?): Dar al-Ḥawar, 1995, Pt III section II on `Ulum al-Qur'ān pp.535-552. *

Ṣadr al-Din Shirazi, = Mullā Ṣadrā (d.1050.1641).

= Muhammad ibn Ibrahim (c. 970-1050 AH = 1571-1641CE).

Massively important Shi`i Islamic philosopher, exegete and theologian.

 

 

 

 

al-Lāhijī, `Abd al-Razzāq ibn `Alī ibn Ḥusayn, al-Sharīf ( d. 1072/1662).

• Tafsīr-i sharīf-i Lāhijī. ed. Mīr Jalāl al-Din Ḥusaynī Armavī. Vols. 3-4 ed. Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Āyatī. 4 Vols. Tehran: Mu’assasih-yi Maṭbū`āt al-`Ilmī, 1340/1961.

al-Lāhijī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shaykh `Alī al-Sharīf (d.  11^th/17^th cent.).

al-Lāhijī, Muhammad ibn Shaykh `Alī al-Sharīf ( d. c. 1072/1661 ?).

Shi`i Tafsīr apparently completed in India,

• Tafsīr-i sharīf-i Lāhijī. ed. Mīr Jalāl al-Din Ḥusaynī Armavī. ed. Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Āyatī. 4 Vols. Tehran: Mu’assasih-i Maṭbū`āt al-`Ilmī, 1340/1961. *
• Tafsīr-i sharīf-i Lāhijī. ed. Mīr Jalāl al-Din Ḥusaynī Urmawī. Vols. 3-4 ed. Muhammad Ibrāhīm Āyatī. 4 Vols. Tehran: Mu’assasih-i Maṭbū`āt al-`Ilmī, 1340/1961 (4 vols. = 856+ 945+938+898 pp.). *
• Tafsīr-i sharīf-i Lāhijī.  Ed. Mīr Jalāl al-Din Ḥusaynī Armavī.  Vols. 3-4 ed. Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Āyatī.  4 Vols.  Tehran: Mu’assasih-i Maṭbū`āt al-`Ilmī, 1340/1961.

Mir Dāmād :  Mīr Muhammad Baqir Āstarābādī  (d. 1041/1641).

• Sidrat al-Muntahā ("The Lote-Tree of the Extremity").  A Qur'ān Commentary, in mss.

al-Baḥrānī  =  Sayyid Hāshim ibn Sulayman ibn Isma'il ibn `Abd al-Jawad ibn `Ali Ibn Sulayman ibn Nasir Husayni Katkani Tubli  (d. 1110/1695 or 1697) 

Fayḍ al-Kashānī = Mullā Muḥsin Fayḍ al-Kashānī, (d.1091/1680).

al-Kashānī, Mulla Muhsin  (d.1091/1680)

al-Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, Mullā Muḥsin, (d. 1091/1680).

• Mahajja = al-Maḥajja al-bayḍā' fī tahdhīb al-iḥyā’. ed. 'Alī Akbar al-GhaXarī, 8 vols. Beirut: Mu`assat al-A`lamī. 1403/1984
• `Ilm = `Ilm al-yaqīn fī Uṣūl al-dīn. 2 vols.  Dār al-balāgha. 1410/1990.
• Nawadir = Nawādir al-akhbār fīmā yata`allaq bi-uṣūl al-dīn. Ed. Mahdi Ansārī. Tehran: Institute for Cultural Studies, 1375/1996. 
• Mafatīḥ  al-sharā’i`  
• Ilm = `Ilm al-yaqīn fī uṣūl al-dīn. 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Balāgha, 1410/1990.
• Nawadir = Nawādir al-akhbār fīmā yata`allaq bi uṣūl al-dīn.  Tehran. 1375 Sh./.1997.
• Nawādir al-akhbār fīmā yata`allaq bi uṣūl al-dīn. Tehran. 1375 Sh./.1997.
• Aṣfar
• T-Safi = Tafsīr al-ṣāfī.  5 Vols., ed. Shaykh Ḥusayn al-A`lam. Mashhad: Sa`āda n.d.
• Kitāb al-Ṣāfī fī Tafsīr al-Qur’ān. 7 vols. ed.  Sayyid Muḥsin al-Ḥusaynī al-Amīnī.   Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, 1419/1998.
• `Ilm al-yaqīn fī uṣūl al-dīn. 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Balāgha, 1410/1990.

al-Baḥrānī, Sayyid Hāshim b. Sulaymān al-Baḥrānī (d. 1107/1695-96).

al-Baḥrānī = Sayyid Hāshim ibn Sulayman ibn Isma'il ibn `Abd al-Jawad ibn `Ali Ibn Sulayman ibn Nasir Husayni Katkani Tubli (d. 1110/1695 or 1697) = Qaruni Bahrani. Safavid period Shi`i exegete.

See Dhar`ia III:94; Madelung in EIr.III:538.

• Kitāb al-Burhān fī tafsīr al-qur’ān. Completed 1097/1686 dedicated to Shah Sulayman, 4 vols. Qumm 1394/1974.
• 2nd ed. Ed. Mashmud ibn Ja`far al-Musawi al-Zarandi, + Naji-Allah ibn Karim-Allah al-Tafrishi al-Bazarjani + Muhammad ibn Mirza `Ali Akabr, Tehran: Chapkhanah Aftab, + 3rd edition.
• al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur'an, 5 vols. Qum: Mu`asesah-yi Matbu`at-i Isma'iliyyan, n.d. Repr. Beirut 1403/1983
• Kitāb al-Burhān fī tafsīr al-Qur'ān, ed. Mahmud b. Ja'far Mūsawī al-Zarandī et al., 4 vols., Tehran 1375/1995.
• Kitāb al-Burhān fī tafsīr al-Qur'ān,ed. Introduction by Muhammad Mahdi al-Āṣifī, 10 vols.. Beirut: Mu'asasat al-Bi'thah, 1419-1421/1999-2000.*
• Madinat al-Majiz,
• YanAbū al-Majiz wa Usul al-Dalail,
• Al-Insaf fī al-Nass `ala al-A'imma,

al-Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir (d. 1111/1699-1700).

al-Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, ed. based on the edition by Kumpānī, 90 vols, in 110 tomes. Tehran and Qumm, 1376–1392/1956–1972.

• Bihar = Biḥār al-anwār, 1st ed.  = 15 vols. Tehran: ADD 1887-98. 
• Bihar² = Biḥār al-anwār  (2nd ed [= Biḥār  1st ed.  =15 vols. 1887-98 ] Tehran) 110 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Iḥyā al-Turāth al-`Arabī, 1376-94/1956-74 and 1403/1983.
• Hayat = Ḥayāt al-qulūb.  5 vols. Ed. Sayyid `Alī Imamiyān. Intishārāt Surūr, 1375-6 Sh/ 1997-8.
• Ḥilyat al-muttaqīn fī’l-ādāb wa’l-sunnan wa’l-akhlāq (The Lawful Piety of the [Shī`ī] Godfearing consonant with the ways of Piety, Tradition and Createdness). An extensive compendium of  Shī`ī religious guidance grounded in imamological statements and related Shī`ī fiqh (jurisprudence) materials.
• Ḥilliyyat al-muttaqīn
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al-Huwayzī = `Abd `Alī ibn Jum`ah al-`Arūsī al-Ḥuwayzī (d. 1112 / 1700).

Shī`ī Tafsīr حويزي، عبد علي بن جمعة

`Abd `Alī al Ḥuwayzī (d.1112/1700).       

Various Akhbārī (`tradition centred’) Shī`ī commentators utilized and highlighted the importance of a non literal hermeneutic (EIr.1:716 18; Lawson, 1993). On occasion they set down interesting interpretations to Q. rooted Isrā’īliyyāt or Islamo-Biblica materials as found in the traditions (akhbār ). Only  passing mention can be made here to such exegetes. They include `Abd `Alī al Ḥuwayzī (d.1112/1700), author of the Kitāb tafsīr  nūr al thaqalayn  (The Book of the Commentary on the Light of the Twin Weights)

.al-Ḥuwayzī, `Abd `Alī (d.1112/1700)

• Thaqalayn = Kitāb Tafsīr nūr al-thaqalayn.

 

[Tafsīr ] Nūr al-thaqalayn ("Commentary expressive of the Light of the Twin Weights")

• کتاب تفسير نور الثقلين = Kitab Tafsīr Nūr al-thaqalayn. 5 vols. Qum, al-Maṭbaʻa al-ʻIlmiyya, 1383-1385/ 1963-1965.
• کتاب تفسير نور الثقلين = Kitāb tafsīr Nūr al-thaqalayn. 5 vols. Qum : al-Maṭbaʻa al-ʻIlmiyya, XXXX / 1984[?].
• تفسير نور الثقلين = Tafsīr Nūr al-thaqalayn. 8 vols. ed. ʻAlī ʻĀshūr. Beirut: : Muʼassasat al-Tārīkh al-ʻArabī, 2001.
• تفسير نور الثقلين = Tafsīr Nūr al-thaqalayn. 8 vols. in 3. Beirut: Dār al-Maḥajjah al-Bayḍāʼ, 2015. Vol.1. [1-3]. Sūrat al-Baqarah - Sūrat al-Tawbah. vol. 2 [3-5]. Sūrat Yūnus to Sūrat al-Sajada. Vol. 3 [6-8]. Sūrat al-Aḥzāb - Sūrat al-Nās...
• تفسير نور الثقلين = Tafsīr Nūr al-thaqalayn / Tarjamah va matn-i tafsīr-i sharīf-i Nūr al-s̲aqalīn. Multi-volume Persian Trans. Tarjamah-i gurūhī az fuz̤alā-yi Ḥawzah-i Tafsīr ; bā pīshʹguftār va ishrāf-i Ustād ʻAqīqī Bakhshāyishī. Qum : Kitāb-i ʻAtīq ; nāshir-i hamkār : Navīd-i Islām, 1391-/2012-. Several editions and printings.
• [Tafsīr ] Nūr al-thaqalayn ("Commentary expressive of the Light of the Twin Weights")
• Kitab Tafsīr Nūr al-thaqalayn. 5 vols. ed. Hashim al-Rasuli al-Maḥalatti. Qum: al-Matba`ah al-`Ilmiyya, 1383-5/1963-5, ]
• Kitab Tafsīr Nūr al-thaqalayn. 5 vols. ed. Hashim al-Rasuli al-Maḥalatti. Qum: al-Matba`ah al-`Ilmiyya, 1383-5/1963-5
• Kitāb Tafsīr nūr al-thaqalayn, 8 vols. ed. `Ali `Ashūr. Beirut: Mu`assasat al-Tarīkh al-`Arabī, 2001. *
• Kitāb Tafsīr nūr al-thaqalayn, 8 vols. ed. `Ali `Ashūr. Beirut: Mu`assasat al-Tarīkh al-`Arabī, 2001. *
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al‑`Āmilī al‑Iṣfahānī (d.1138/1726)

The Mir’āt al‑anwār wa mishkāt al‑asrār fī tafsīr al‑Qur’ān (Mirrors of Lights and Niches of Mysteries in Commentary upon the Qur’ān) of al‑`Āmilī al‑Iṣfahānī (d.1138/1726) contains an extensive prolegomenon highlighting and expounding the deeper hermeneutics of qur’ānic exegesis. Included in its extensive alphabetical glossary of key Shī`ite terms are expositions of many biblical‑qurānic figures including Gabriel, Adam, Abraham, Lot, Gog and Magog (Yājūj and Mājūj), Joseph, Israel (Isrā’īl), Solomon (Sulaymān) and Jesus. Corbin described this volume as "one of the monuments of Iranian theological literature, furnishing inexhaustible material for comparative research on the hermeneutics of the Book among the "People of the Book"" (Corbin. EIr. I:931‑2; Dharī`a 20:264f., no. 2893; Lawson, 1993:195f).

 

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al-Bursevī [Bursawī], Ismā'īl Ḥaqqī (d.1063-1137 AH = 1653-1725). 

A prolific and polymathic Ottoman Sufī  commentator,  Hadith scholar and commentator, poet, musician and calligrapher,  Bursevi (= `of Busra')  wrote over 100 books in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. He was a Shaykh of the Jalwatiyya order founded by Shaykh Uftade and Aziz Mahmud Hudayi and was much influenced by Ibn al-`Arabi, Sadr al-Din Qunawi and Jalal al-Din Rumi on whose Mathnavi he wrote a commentary. See further  Ali Ayni, Mehemmed, Ismail Hakki: philosophe mystique 1653-1725, Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1933;  Namh, Ali, Ismail Hakki Bursevi Hayati, Eserleri ve Tarikat Anlayisi, Istanbul: Insan Yaymlan, 2001; Ibrahim Kalin `Bursevi, Ismail Hakki' in BEIP vol. 1 [2006] :88-90. Apparently written over a 23 year period.

• Tafsīr  Rūḥ al-Bayān. 4 vols. Istanbul: Amira Press, 1285/1868 (979 + 996 + 683 + 728 pp ).
• Tafsīr  Rūḥ al-Bayān. 4 vols. Istanbul: `Uthmaniyya Press, 1306/1888 (979 + 996 + 683 + 728 pp ).
• Tafsīr  Rūḥ al-Bayān, 10 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Fīkr (= Rep. of Istanbul  lithograph 1866). * 
• Rep. from Istanbul Ku'itah ed. Maktabah Islamiyya,  10 vols. 1985. (??)

al-'Āmilī al-Isfahānī, `Abū 'l Ḥasan (d. Najaf, 1138/1726).

A student of Muhammad Baqir Majlisi...

 

al-Aḥsā’ī = Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī (b. Ḥasa [Aḥsa] c. 1166/1753 - d. Medina 1241/1826).

احمد بن زین الدین بن ابراهیم الأحسايي

Early Qajar period Arab born Shi`i philosopher and mystic who lived for many years in Persia-Iran and whose followers were known as al-Shaykhiyya (Shaykhis) or Kashfiyya ("Disclosers") as well as Balasaris (literally, "Facing the Head [Persons]")... Many of al-Ahsa'is numerous writings and treatises are expository of the Qur'ān and related Hadith texts.

• Tafsīr Sūrat al-tawhīd wa āyat al-nūr . This was written in reply to Sayyid Muhammad Bakā' and printed within vol.1 of the Jawāmi` al-kalim,
• Tafsīr Sūrat al-tawhīd 2nd ed. in Majmū`a al-rasā'il al-ḥikma' (2nd ed.) Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, 1379/ 1960. pp.1-16. *trans. Stephen Lambden (forthcoming) URL:
• Jawāmi` al kalim (= JK. ) 2 vols. Tabrīz: Muhammad Tāqī Nakhjavānī, 1273/1856-7 . Vol.1 / i, ii and iii and 1276 /1859-60 = vol. 2/i and ii. *
• Sharḥ al `arshiyya. 2 vols. 2nd. ed. Kirmān: Sa`adat. n.d.
• K.  Fawa’id  = Kitab al-Fawā'id al-Ḥikmiyya  ("The Book of the Scrutiny of Wisdom") Critical ed. and translation announced by Idris Sawami Hamid (IJSS 1:67 fn.8).
• K-`Ismat = K. al-`iṣmat. Beirut: Dār al-`Ālamīyya, 1414/1993.
• K-Raj`a = K. Al-raja`a.  Beirut: al-Dār al-`Ālamiyya.  1414/1993.
• MajR-30 = Majmu`at al-rasā'il min musnafat al-Shaykh.. Aḥmad. vol 30, Kirman: 2nd  ed.Kirman, n.d.
• Kashkul = al-Kashkūl.  2 vols.  Mss. Alif-9 and Alif-10. Kerman: Shaykhī Library. Weisbaden: Harrasowitch.    
• Jawāmi` al-kalim ("The Compendium of Discourse"). 2 vols. in 5 parts.  While vol.1 contains around 40 treatises (rasa'il) Vol. 2 has 52, often composite, multi-faceted works. The lithographed text was written in the script of `Abd al-Ḥamīd Rawḍa-Khān. A print run of   500 copies was made at the Tabriz located press of  Muhammad Tāqī Nakhjavānī.
• JK = Jawāmi` al-kalim. Tabrīz: Muhammad Tāqī Nakhjavānī, 1273-76/1856-60. Vol.1 Pts. i, ii and iii.  1273/1856 & vol. 2 Pts. I and ii, 1276/1859-60.
• Risāla fī jawāb ba`ḍi al-ikhwān min Iṣfahān (Epistle in Reply to some of the Brethren from Isfahan) in Majmū`at al-Rasā'il.. vol. 30  (Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda, nd) pp.193-215. Trans. Lambden (ongoing): URL: http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/SHAYKHISM/SA-Isfahanf.htm
• Muqaddimat [al-Burhan Tafsīr al-Qur'ān] tafsīr mir'āt al-anwār wa-mishkāt al-asrār, ed. Mahmud b. Ja'far al-Mūsawī al-Zarandī, Tehran 1374/1954

• Mir’āt al‑anwār wa mishkāt al‑asrār fī tafsīr al‑Qur’ān (Mirrors of Lights and Niches of Mysteries in Commentary upon the Qur’ān). [3rd ed?]. 1374/1954-5. *

• Sh-`Arshiyya = Sharḥ al-kitāb al-ḥikma al-`arshiyya ("Commentary upon the Book of the Wisdom of the Throne"). Lithograph 1st ed. in 2 vols. Vol.1 [Tabriz: ADD] 1271/ 1854-5 and vol. 2 [Tabriz: ADD, 1278-9/1861-2.
• Sharḥ Kitab al-Hikmat al-`Arshiyya  2 vols. 2nd. ed. Kirmān: Sa`ada. n. d.
•  Sharḥ al-`arshiyya… (Commentary upon the Wisdom of the Throne [of Mulla Sadr al-Din Shirazi] . 2<sup>nd</sup> ed. 2 vols. Kirmān: Matba`at al-Sa`adat. n.d.
• Sh. Fawa’id = Sharḥ al fawā'id .  n.p. [Tabriz?] 1272/1856.
• [Kitab] Sharḥ al-fawā'id  ("The [Book of] The Commentary upon the Scrutiny [of Wisdom]"). 1274/1858.
• Sh-Masha’ir = Kitāb Sharḥ al-mashā'ir ("Commentary upon the Book of  Metaphysical Penetrations" [of Mulla Sadr al-Din Shirazi]):
• Kitāb] Sharḥ al-Mashā`ir. Lithograph n. p. [Tehran?] 1277/1861.
• [Kitāb] Sharḥ al-Mashā`ir  2nd ed. Kirman: Matba`at al-Sa`ada, 1408/1987??.
• Kitāb al-mashā'ir. ed. and trans. Henri Corbin, Live des pénétrationes Métaphysiques. Tehran + Paris, 1964; also rep. 1982 = Tehran: Institut Francais d'Iranologie de Tehran [1968] + Paris: Librarie d'Amérique et d'Orient, A. Maisonneuve, rep. 1982 Kitāb-khānih: Tahūrī (= Bibliotheque Iranienne, Vol. 10).
• Sh-Ziyara =         Sharḥ al-ziyāra al-jāmi'a al-kabīra(A commentary on the Comprehensive Visitation Text"). An important phrase or word by word commentary of Shaykh Aḥmad upon the  weighty visitation prayer for  the (twelver)  Imams collectively by the tenth Imam `Alī al-Hadi (d. c. 214 [254] / 829 [868]). It is found, for example, in the following two important legalistic works of Ibn Babūya/ Babuwayh al-Qummī (d.381/991)  Man lā yahḍuru-hu al-faqīḥ ("For whomsoever is without access to a lawyer") and the [2] Tahdhīb al-aḥkām  (The Rectification of Judgments). ADD HERE
• Sharh al-ziyāra ... Ramaḍan 1256 / Oct-Nov. 1840.... (= first edition?).
• Sharh al-ziyāra. Tehran Lithograph ed. Mullā Muhammad Nizam al-`Ulamā. 4 vols. in 1. Ramadan, 1267 / July 1851  Camb. Univ. Lib.  S828.a.85.2 (Momen, BSBM1).
• Sharh al-ziyāra .... 2 vols. in one. n.p. [Lithograph ed. Tabriz], 1276 / 1859.
• Sharh al-ziyāra. 4 vol ed. Kirmān: Maṭba'at al-Sa'ādat, 1355-6 Sh./1976-7.
• Sharḥ al-ziyāra al-jāmi'a al-kabīra., Tehran [1267/1850-51]; 4th ed., 4 vols. Kirmān, 1355-6/1976-7.
• Sharḥ al-ziyāra al-jāmi'a al-kabīra. 4 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Mufīd, 1420/1999 and 1424/2003.
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• T-Tawhid = Tafsīr sūrat al-tawḥīd Tafsīr sūrat al-tawḥīd (Commentary on the Surah of the Divine Unity). This commentary was originally written in reply to Sayyid Muhammad Bakā'  and printed within vol.1 of the Jawāmi` al-kalim   as part of the Tafsīr Sūrat al-tawhīd wa āyat al-nūr. Its first part, the Tafsīr Sūrat al-tawḥīd is printed in a  2nd. ed. in the composite volume of collected Shaykhī  Tafsir works  entitled Majmū`a al-rasa'il al-hikma'  (Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`ada. Shawal, 1379/ March-April 1959-60). pp. 1-16.
• T-Tawhid = Tafsīr sūrat al-tawḥīd.  2nd ed. Kirmān: Maṭba`at al-Sa`āda. 1379/1959-60.Trans. Lambden (ongoing) : http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/SHAYKHISM/AL-AHSA'I.htm
• Risalat al-tawḥīd (The Treatise upon the Divine Unity).  Jāmi` al-Imam al-Sādiq, Dawlat al-Kuwait, 1422/2001.

 

Rashtī, Sayyid Kāzim  (d. Karbala, 1259/1843).

= Ibn Sayyid Qāsim Muhammad Kāẓim al-Hāshimi.. al-Ḥusaynī (d. Karbala, 1259-1843).

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= Sayyid Kazim Ibn Sayyid Qāsim Muhammad Kāẓim al-Hāshimi.. al-Ḥusaynī...

The Persian born second head of al-Shaykhiyya (Shaykhism) after Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ahsā'ī (see above). Qajar period Persian mystical philosopher and exegete.

Mss contained, for example, in SOAS (London) No. 1141 [unpaginated] Item 8.  [ fols. XXX] (see Ibrahimi, Fihrist No. 270 p. 331). Rashti claims at the outset  to be giving a deep mystico-philosophical exegesis expressive of the ta`wīl ("allegorical") and of the bāṭin ("Interior dimension") of this Qur'ānic verse. This work is an extended several hundred page very complex  exegesis- eisegesis of the Throne Verse. It commences as follows:

"Praised be unto God Who shed the splendor of His radiance upon the inmost hearts of the mystic knowers so as to actualize the disclosure of the orient lights of His theophany. He set ablaze the hearts of the mystic wayfarers through the orient splendors of His Light and explicated the inner retreats [bosoms] of all the worlds for the purpose of dazzlingly illuminating the radiances of His cyclic schemata.

And blessings be upon our Master [the Prophet] Muhammad through whom He settled down upon His Throne (`arsh) and His Seat (kursi) for he is the Name through the shadow of which eyes were solaced. Wherefore there did not emerge from before me aught save what is of Him for he [Muhammad] is the Hidden, Mightiest Name (al-ism al-a`zam) and the Light of Lights treasured up, the very one through whom the Lights found illumination. Through him were mysteries disclosed and Light irradiated from the Dawn of Eternity (subḥ al-azal). And through him did all existence fīnd realization.... " (trans. Lambden)

• Dalīl al-motaḥayyerīn, n.p., 1276/1859-60
• Sh. Ism = Risāla fī sharh wa tafsīr Ism Allāh al-a`ẓam. School of Oriental and African Studies Library. Ms. Ar. 92308 fol. 271a-74a.
• Sh-Qasida = Sharh al-qaṣīda al-lāmiyya. Tabrīz. 1270/1853.  
• Sh.Ttnj = Sharḥ al-Khuṭba al-ṭutunjiyya  [taṭanjiyya]. Tabriz, 1270/1853-4.
• Extract in the Persian translation of Henri Corbin, En Islam Iranian Tehran ADD.
• Risālah for Mirza `Ali Ṭabīb Hindī containing responses to questions about the basmalah. Unpublished mss. See
• Fihrist of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 265.
• Risālah for Mulla Muhammad `Ali Shahir Bujdali on some of the mysteries of the Basmalah. Unpublished mss. See
• Fihrist of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 266
• Risālah for Mulla Muhammad `Ali Shahir Bujdali on some of the mysteries of the Basmalah. Unpublished mss. See Fihrist of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 267 Risālah in exposition of the Point ( • ) of the Letter "B" ((5 ) of the Basmalah. Unpublished mss. See Fihrist of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 269.
• Risālah in exposition of some aspects of the Basmalah. Unpublished mss. See Fihrist of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 270..
• Risālah in exposition of the exegetical modes (maqāmāt) of the outer (ẓāhir) and inner (bāṭin) as well as the allegorical (ta`wil) senses of the Qur'ān and of the ahkbar or traditions of the people of the House [of the Prophet].Old Lithograph edition. See Fihrist of Sayyid Kazim and Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.330 No. 272
• Risālah-i Yawmiyya on the [Qur'ānic and related references to the] creation of the
  heavens and the earth in four - eight or six days. See Ibrahimi, Fihrist p.331 No. 271.

Kirmānī, Ḥajji Mīrzā Muhammad Karim Khān Kirmānī (d. 1288/1871). 19th century Qajar period third Kirmānī Shaykhi leader. Pupil of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī (d. 1843) and follower of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ahsa'i (d. 1826). 

• Tafsīr Sūrat al-hujarat. Autograph mss. with marginalia; p.72-75 replaced later. - Brown leather binding. - 133 pages of text; 19 lines per page 180x110 mm (text: 120x65 mm) Author's manuscript (less than two years prior to his death), dated Rabi' I 1286?/ 1869. Ms.6 Box 1 in UCLA-Shaykhi Collection.

al-`Ālūsī = Abū al-Thanā' Shihāb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn `Abd-Allāh Baghdādī al-`Ālūsī (d.1270/1854).

al-`Ālūsī was an important`Alid Sunni scholar and commentator of 19th century Ottoman Baghdad.

• Rūḥ al-ma` ānī fī Tafsīr al- Qur'ān al- 'azīm wa al-sab' al-mathānī, ("The Spirit of the Meaning in the Commentary upon the Mighty Qur'ān") 30 vols, in 15, Cairo 1345/1926.
• Rūḥ al-ma` ānī fī Tafsīr al- Qur'ān al- 'azīm wa al-sab' al-mathānī, Cairo: Dār al-Zayni lil-Tiba`ah wa'-l-Nashr, c. 1346/ 1927 [1930]?.
• Rūḥ al-ma` ānī fī Tafsīr al- Qur'ān al- 'azīm wa al-sab' al-mathānī, Cairo: Mu'assasat al-Halabåi lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzåi, XXXX/1964.
• Rūḥ al-ma` ānī fī Tafsīr al- Qur'ān al- 'azīm wa al-sab' al-mathānī. (= rep. of Cairo: Idarat al-Tiba`ah al-Munairiyah, Cairo, ca. 1353.) 31 vols. in 16 Dār al-Ihya al-Turath al-`Arabī, XXX/ 1970.
• Rūḥ al-ma`ānī fī tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-`azāīm wa-sab` al-mathānī, Cairo, 1353; reprint 30 vols. in 15, Beirut, 1405/1985.
• Rūḥ al-ma` ānī fī Tafsīr al- Qur'ān al- 'azīm wa al-sab' al-mathānī, 30 vols, in 15 + Index vol. 16. Dār al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyyah, 1415/ 1994. *
• Rūḥ al-ma`ani fī tafsīr al-qur'ān al-`aẓīm . Repr. Beirut, n.d.
• Rūḥ al-ma`ani fī tafsīr al-qur'ān al-`aẓīm. CD Rom. *

Rashid Riḍā', Muhammad (1865-1935) [+ Muhammad `Abduh]. Syrian Islamic reformer who resided in Egypt from 1897.
See above on Muhammad `Abduh.

• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-ḥakīm al-shahīr bi Tafsīr al-Manār. Beirut: XXXX, 1414/1993.
• Tafsīr in al-Manār (the Lighthouse) an Egyptian journal published between 18XX and 19XX.

Bashīr al-Dīn Maḥmūd = Mirza Bashīr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Aḥmad (1889-1965 CE).

He claimed to be the Khalifat al-Masih II. The Ahmadiyya Community was established in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908) in the village of Qadian,  Punjab, India.

• Tafsir-i Kabir (The Mighty Tafsir).

• "Mirza Basheerud Deen Mahmood. Tafseer e Kabeer [3]. Written by the second successor and son of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam. Ahmadiyya Commentary on the Qur'an.

 

 

 

Select Sources and Abbreviations Utilized Above.

BCQ = The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān

Rippin, Andrew (ed).

• The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān (Series = Blackwell companions to Religion). Oxford + Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006 ( xiii, 560 pp. ). Contains 32 articles by leading academics (560pp.)

BEIP = Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy

Oliver Leaman,

• Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic philosophy (=BEIP).
• (ed. S.H, Nasr+ Oliver Leaman), The History of Islamic Philosophy (= HIP). 2 Pts (= Routledge History of World Philosophies, Vol.1), London and New York, 1996. *

CHAL vols. 1-6 = Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. *

• (CHAL1) Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period / edited by A. F. L. Beeston ... [et al.]. (Cambridge history of Arabic literature) Cambridge: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983
• (CHAL2) Abbasid belles-lettres. edited by Julia Ashtiany ... [et al.] (Cambridge history of Arabic literature) Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990
• (CHAL3) Young, M. J. L., A. D. Latham, and R. B. Serjeant, eds. Religion, learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period. The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• (CHAL4) M. M. Baidawi, ed. Modern Arabic Literature. The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 [1997]
• (CHAL5) Maria Rosa Menocal; Raymond P. Scheindlin and Michael Sells, eds. The Literature of al-Andalus.. The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• (CHAL6) Roger Allen and D.S. Richards, eds. Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period. The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• (CHAL 7).

CCQ = Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān. *

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed.

• The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān. Cambridge: CUP., 2006.

EAL = Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. *

• EAL =Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. 2 vols. ed. J. S. Meisami & P. Starkey. London & New York: Routledge, 1998

EI + EI²⁺ + EI²S + EI³= Encyclopedia of Islam (Leiden: Brill). *

• EI = Encyclopedia of Islam.. (1st edition), ed. M. Th. Houtsma, et al. E.J. Brill & Luzac & co., 1913-1938. Rep. E.J. Brill: New York..1987. + Supp. vol. rep. Ibid., 1987.
• El² = Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, ed. H. A. R. Gibb et al., Leiden:E.J. Brill / London: Luzac, 1960> (CD rep. 1999> ongoing).
• EI² Supp. = EI2 vol. 12.
• EI³ 3rd ed. Beill Online from 20XX.

Encyclopedia Iranica (= EIr.). *

• EIr = Ehsan Yarshater, (ed.) Encyclopedia Iranica., Costa Mesa: Mazda Publisher New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 1982>

Encyclopedia of the Qur'an (= E-Q 1-5+ Index vol.). *

McAuliffe, Jane Dammen et. al. (eds.)

• E-Q = Encyclopedia of the Qur’ān. Vols. 1-5, Leiden: Brill, 2001-5 *
• Encyclopedia of Qur'an: Index Volume. Brill Academic Publishers, 2006 ., HBk. = ISBN 9004147640

Fihrist Ibn al-Nadim (= Fihrist). *

• Kitâb al-Fihrist. Ed. Gustav Flügel. Leipzig 1871-72. I-II. (434 + 294 pp.) Repr. 2005 (Historiography and Classification of Science in Islam. 1-2). ISBN 3-8298-9003-6.
• al-Fihrist li'l-Ibn al-Nadīm, ed. Shaykh Ibrahim Ramadan, Beirut: Dār al-Fatwa/ Dār al-Ma`rifat, 1417/1997. *
• The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture. Bayard Dodge, editor and translator. (Records of civilization, sources and studies. no. 83) New York, Columbia University Press, 1970. *

GAL/GAL-S = Brockelmann, Carl (1868–1956).

• GAL = Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur , 2 Vols. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1st edition, 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1889-1936. 2nd ed. 2 vols. = 1943–1949.
• GAL = Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) ; erweitert um ein Vorwort von Jan Just Witkam. 2 vols. Leiden ; New York : E. J. Brill, 1996.
• GAL-S = Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur [Supplement vols. 1-3]. 2nd ed. Leiden ; New York : E. J. Brill, 1996.

GAS (13+ vols. to date) =

Sezgin, Fuat : The Turkish professor and the director of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

• Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. (German) Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1967– *
• Vol. 1. (1967) Qur'ānwissenschaften, Hadit Geschichte, Fiqh, Dogmatik,Mystik bis ca. 430 H. Rep. Leiden: Brill 1996 ISBN-10: 90 04 02007 1 ISBN-13 978 9004020 07 8 (xv+ 936 pp.). *

 

Gātje, Helmut.

• 1996 [Rep. 1976, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.] The Qur'ān And Its Exegesis : Selected Texts With Classical And Modern Muslim Interpretations by Helmut Gātje, trans. and ed. Alford T. Welch. Oxford: Oneworld. Contains good translations from primary Tafsir sources.

 

JQS = Journal of Qur'anic Studies. University of Edinburgh

• http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=2&journalId=12154

Leaman, Q-Enc = The Qur'an, An Encyclopedia

Oliver Leaman,

• The Qur'ān, An Encyclopedia (= Q-Enc). Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2005 . ISBN= 0415326397.*

MIC., 2 vols. = MIC1 or MIC2 = Medieval Islamic Civilization

Josef W. Meri (ed.)

• Medieval Islamic Civilization, An Encyclopedia. 2 vols. New York, Abingdon (UK): Routledge, 2006. *

This important Encyclopedia contains much pertinent to Tafsir studies...

Tradition and Survival (= TAS1)

Modarressi, Hossein.

• Tradition and Survival, A bibliographical Survey of Early Shi'ite Literature, Vol.1 Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.*

Arabic Lithographed Books.

Gacek, Adam.

• Arabic Lithographed Books (= Fontanus Monograph Series VII) in the Islamic Studies Library McGill University, Descriptive Catalogue. Montreal: McGill University Library, 1996.*

Rippin, A. (ed).

• 1988 (Ed) Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur'an. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 
• `Interpreting the Bible through the Qur’an,’ in Hawting and Shareef,   eds., Approaches to the Qur'an, 249-59.

Sezgin, Fuat.

• GAS  = Geschichte des arabischen Schrifftums. 12+ vols. to date. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1967-proceeding.

Sezgin, Fuat : The Turkish professor and the director of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. (German) Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1967–

• Vol. 1. (1967) Qur'ānwissenschaften, Hadit Geschichte, Fiqh, Dogmatik,Mystik bis ca. 430 H. Rep. Leiden: Brill 1996 ISBN-10: 90 04 02007 1 ISBN-13 978 9004020 07 8 (xv+ 936 pp.).
• Vol. 2. (1975) [1996] Poesie bis ca. 430 H. Rep. 1996 (xii+808 pp.)
• Vol. 3. (1970) [1996] Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H. (xxi+498 pp ), Rep. 1996
• Vol. 4. (1971) [1996] Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430 H
• Vol. 5. (1974) Mathematik bis ca. 430 H.
• Vol. 6. (1978) Astronomie bis ca. 430 H. (xv +522pp.)
• Vol. 7. (1979) [1997] Astrologie, Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H.
• Vol. 8. (1982) Lexikographie bis ca. 430 H. (xiii+389 pp.)
• Vol. 9. (1984) Grammatik bis ca. 430 H. (xiii+406 pp ).
• Vol. 10 (2000/2005) Mathematische Geographie Und Kartographie Im Islam Und Ihr Fortleben Im
• Abendland...= Eng. trans. `Mathematical Geography and Cartography in Islam and their Continuation in the Occident', vol. 1, Historical Presentation, Part 1, Frankfurt 2005.
• Vol.11 (2XXX) + Vol.12 (2XXX) + Vol. 13 (2006)

Storey, C.A. (= Storey).

• Persian Literature, A Bio-bibliographical Survey, Vol.1 Part 1. Qur'anic Literature, History. London: Luzac, 1927-1039. Rep. 1970 (780pp.). *

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Dāmaghānī, al-Husayn b. Muhammad al-Dāmaghānī, (ADD/ ADD) 

• Wujūh = al-Wujūh wa’l-naẓā’ir li-alfāz Kitāb Allāh al-'azīz, ed. Muhammad Ḥasan Abū l-'Aẓm al-Zafītī, 3 vols., Cairo 1412-16/ 1992-5;
• al-Wujūh wa’l-naẓā’ir li-alfāz Kitāb Allāh al-'azīz. ed. `Abd al-'Azīz Sayyid al-Ahl (as Qamus al-Qur'ān), Beirut 1970.

Dārwaza, Muhammad 'Izzat  Dārwaza, (ADD/ ADD).

• al-Tafsīr al-ḥadīth, 12 vols., Cairo 1381-3/1962-4

Daylamī : Abū Thābit `Abd-al-Mālik Daylamī.

• Futūḥ al-Raḥmān fī ishārāt al-Qur’ān [or Taṣdīq al-ma`ārif. Beyazét Umumi Kütüphanesi, Istanbul, Veliyeddin Efendi ms. no. 430.

al-Dāwūdī, Shams al-Din, Muhammad b. 'Alī b. Aḥmad (ADD/ ADD) 

• Ṭabaqat = Ṭabaqat al-mufassirīn, ed. 'Alī Muhammad 'Umar, 2 vols., Beirut 1983. *

Dhahabī, Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabī, (ADD/ ADD)

• al-Tafsîr wa ’l-mufassirūn. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Beirut 1396/1976 (492+639 pp. ).
• Tabaqat al-mufassirūn  / al-Tafsīr wa-l-mufassirūn, 2 vols., Cairo:  Dār al-Kutub, 1392/1972 +1976..

Esfarayeni, Abū l al-Muzaffar (5th century- CHECK)

• Tāj al-Tarājim fī  Tafsīr al-Qur'ān lil- A'ājim (Persian) 3. Vols. Ed. Najib Mayel Heravi & Ali Akbar Elalii Khorasani,Tehran: 1995 HB (1436 pp).

 

Dāmaghānī, al-Husayn b. Muhammad al-Dāmaghānī, (ADD/ ADD) 

• Wujūh = al-Wujūh wa’l-naẓā’ir li-alfāz Kitāb Allāh al-'azīz, ed. Muhammad Ḥasan Abū l-'Aẓm al-Zafītī, 3 vols., Cairo 1412-16/ 1992-5;
• al-Wujūh wa’l-naẓā’ir li-alfāz Kitāb Allāh al-'azīz. ed. `Abd al-'Azīz Sayyid al-Ahl (as Qamus al-Qur'ān), Beirut 1970.

Dārwaza, Muhammad 'Izzat  Dārwaza, (ADD/ ADD).

• al-Tafsīr al-ḥadīth, 12 vols., Cairo 1381-3/1962-4

Daylamī : Abū Thābit `Abd-al-Mālik Daylamī.

• Futūḥ al-Raḥmān fī ishārāt al-Qur’ān [or Taṣdīq al-ma`ārif. Beyazét Umumi Kütüphanesi, Istanbul, Veliyeddin Efendi ms. no. 430.

al-Dāwūdī, Shams al-Din, Muhammad b. 'Alī b. Aḥmad (ADD/ ADD) 

• Ṭabaqat = Ṭabaqat al-mufassirīn, ed. 'Alī Muhammad 'Umar, 2 vols., Beirut 1983. *

Dhahabī, Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabī, (ADD/ ADD)

• al-Tafsîr wa ’l-mufassirūn. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Beirut 1396/1976 (492+639 pp. ).
• Tabaqat al-mufassirūn  / al-Tafsīr wa-l-mufassirūn, 2 vols., Cairo:  Dār al-Kutub, 1392/1972 +1976..

al-Farārī , Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah.

• ʿAyna al-aʿyān. / Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah .  Istanbul : Rifʿat Bey Matbaʿasī, 1908 (376pp.). A commentary on the first chapter of the Qurʾān.

al-Huwaydī, Shaykh Muhammad (d. XXXX/XXXX).

• al-Tafsir al-mu`in li-wa'izin wa-mutta`izin. Beirut: Dar al-Qari, 1987 (657pp.).
• al-Tafsir al-mu`in. Beirut: Dar al-Balāgha, 1418/1998 (657pp.). *

al-Huwwari, Hud ibn Muhakkam. (ADD/ ADD)

• Tafsīr Kitāb Allah al-'aziz, ed. Belhaj Sharifī , 4 vols. Beirut, 1990. X

Ibn Abī al-Ḥātim (d. 327/939).

Mehmet Akif Koç. (Ankara University)

Ibn `Abī Zamanayn (d.399/1008).

Ibn`Ajībah, Abī al-ʻAbbās Sīdī Aḥmad ibn ʻAjībah al-Ḥasanī al-Tiṭwānī / Aḥmad ibn Muhammad (c. 1747-1809).

ابن عجيبة، أحمد بن محمد

 

Ibn `Atā’ = Taj al-Din Abu'l-Faḍl / Abū'l-`Abbās Ibn `Atā' (d. XXX/XXXX).  

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"Editions of separate Qur’an commentaries are available for Ja`far al-Sādiq (Nwyia, 1968a), Nūrī (Nwyia, 1968b), Ibn`Atā’ (Nwyia, 1973, pp. 23–182) and Hallāj (Massignon, 1968, pp. 359–412). These four tafsīrs have been reproduced (with Nwyia’s original French introductions to his editions of the commentaries by Ja`far al-Sādiq and Ibn ‘Atā’ translated into Persian) in Pūrjavādī (1369, pp. 1–292). Apart from Nwyia’s edition of the Qur’an commentary by Ibn `Atā’, Richard Gramlich’s monograph (Gramlich, 1995) should be noted. This provides a complete German translation of the Sufi Qur’an commentary attributed to Ibn `Atā’ (pp. 130–317)." (Rostom, Mohammed in `Forms of Gnosis in Sulamī’s Sufi Exegesis of the Fātiha' in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, vol. 16, No. 4 ( 2005),  336. fn.4).

Richard Gramlich 1995

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Ibn 'Atiyya, al-Andalusi  (d. 5XX/ 11XX). 

تفسير ابن عطية    

Ibn Durays, Muhammad b. Ayyüb b. Durays (ADD/ ADD).

• Fada'il = Fada'il al-Qur'ān, ed. Ghazwa Budayr, Damascus 1988

 

Ibn al-Hawwārī, Muḥammad = Abī al-Ḥawwārī al- ʿUmānī al-Ibāḍī ; taḥqīq Walīd ʿAwjān (ADD/ADD).

Ibn al-Jawzi, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abī'l-Ḥusayn `Ali (d. 597/1200). 

Ibn al-Jazarī (d. 833/1429). 

Ibn al-Jazarī, Shams al-Dīn Abū’l-Khayr Muhammad b. Muhammad b. al-Jazarī (ADD/ADD).

Ibn al-Hawwārī, Muḥammad = Abī al-Ḥawwārī al- ʿUmānī al-Ibāḍī ; taḥqīq Walīd ʿAwjān (ADD/ADD).

Ibn al-Jawzi, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abī'l-Ḥusayn `Ali (d. 597/1200). 

Ibn al-Jazarī (d. 833/1429). 

Ibn al-Jazarī, Shams al-Dīn Abū’l-Khayr Muhammad b. Muhammad b. al-Jazarī (ADD/ADD).

Ibn Khāzin al-Shīhi ( ADD/ADD).

 

Ibn Salām = Abū  `Ubayd al-Qāsim ibn  Salām [ al-Harawī ](d. 157/224).

Sunnī Hadith  scholar and philologist.

XXX Ibn Shāhīn =   al-Ẓāhiri Ghars al-Din Khalīl Ibn Shāhīn (813- AH = c. 1411-c.1469 CE).  *

See EI² III:935.

XXX Ibn Shahrāshūb, Muhammad ibn `Alī, Abū Ja`far (d. 588/1192).

Imami Shi`i writer See EI2 III:935 + EIr. ADD.

Ibn Sīrīn, Muhammad (d. XXX/ 728-9).

Major figure in early Islamic dream interpretation.

al-Jami' = al-Gāmī'  (= Die Koranswissenschaften), ed. M. Muranyi, Wiesbaden 1992.

Title page in Arabic: al-Jāmi [fī ‘ulūm al-Qur'ān]. xiii, 289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Series Quellenstudien zur Hadīt- und Rechtsliteratur in Nordafrika /  Facsimile and transcription of Manuskript Qairawān 224; commentary in German Title on added  Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-148) and index Subjects Koran -- Early works to 1800 Alt name Muranyi, Miklos Other titles Jāmi‘ (fī ‘ulūm al-Qur'ān) OCLC # 29818080 ISBN 3447032839 *

Mehmet Akif Koc (Ankara University, Turkey)

Maghniyya, Aḥmad (XXX/XXXX).

Najm al-Dīn Kubrā = Shaykh Najm Abu al-Jannāb al-Dīn Kubrā Aḥmad ibn `Umar (540-618 AH =1145-1221 CE).

A great Sufī  teacher whose epithet comes from Q. 79:34 (tammat kubra, "supreme catastrophe") and  reflects his fame as a powerful controversialist. He is regarded as the eponymous founder of the Kubrawiyya Sufi Order of Central Asia and Khurasan. See Meier, 1957; Knysh, Islamic Mysticism, 2000:234-239.

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نخجڤاني، نعمة الله محمود

Nakhjavānī, Shaykh Ni`mat-Allāh ibn Mahmūd ( ADD/ADD). 

 

al-Nasafī, 'Abd-Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Mahmud (d. 710/1310).

Hanafi Sunni exegete

Nisāpūrī, al-Qummī =  Nizām al-Dīn, Ḥasan ibn Muhanmad ibn Ḥusayn (d.728/ 1327-), 

al-Nisabūrī = Nizām al-Dīn, Ḥasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Qummi (d.728/ 1327-8)

al-Naḥḥās, Aḥmad ibn Muhammad (ADD/ ADD)

al-Nu'manĩ,  (d. ca. 360/971). Shi`i Tafsīr.

Nūr al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Shāh (d. 1115/1704),

al-Qasimī, Muhammad Jamāl al-Dīn (d. 1332/1914).

Al-Qasim Ibn Ibrahim (ADD/XXXX).

al-Sa`idi, `Abd al-Rahman ibn Nāṣir (d. 1376/1956).   

Sabzawārī, Muhammad ibn Habib-Allah ( XXXX/XXXX )

 al-Samʻāni =  Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad, Abī al-Muẓaffar al-Samʻānī, (436-489 AH = 1035-1096.).

XXX al-Samarqandī = Abū  al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muhammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrahim al-Samarqandi  ( d. 375/ 983)

XXX Sayyid Quṭb, Ibrahīm Ḥusayn al-Shādhilī  (B. Musha [Egypt] 1903[6] - executed 1966). سيد قطب