Islamic Tafsīr, Qur'ān Commentary : Select Primary Sources

with occasional academic articles

IN PROGRESS  2008-9

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Stephen Lambden (University California, Merced, USA).

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'an 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'anic understanding that may go beyond the merely literalistic. It will pay attention to those who have treasured both the straightforward senses of the Qur'an and what might be its inner meanings or deeper senses. Corrections and suggested additions to this Web page will be greatly welcomed - mailto:  lambden@ohio.edu.

SELECT URLs  FOR TAFSĪR SOURCES AND STUDIES

• http://www.alTafsīr.com/Tafasir.asp

• http://www.alTafsīr.com/home.asp

• http://www.almaktabah.com/

• http://www.almaktabah.com/BrowsePublishers.asp

• http://www.al-ilmiyah.com/cgi-bin/download.pl

• www.al-ilmiyah.com  

• http://tafsir.org/books/menu.php?action=new

• http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=1&journalId=12154 = Journal of Qur'anic Studies (Edinburgh), 1999 (ongoing).

• http://www.quranicstudies.com/popdowns.html

Rippin, Α.,

• 'The study of tafslr in the twenty-first century: Ε-texts and their scholarly use', MELA Notes 69-70, on http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/MELANotes697o/tafsir.html
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Further URLs on this Website:

• The Qur'ān Text, translations, concordances, etc

• Qur'ān and Tafsīr, Select secondary sources.

• Mufassirūn (Exegetes- Commentators) - Biographical Studies and Notes

• Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān ("The Excellences of the Qur'an").

• Asbāb al-nuzul ("The Circumstances of the revelation")

• Shī`ī Imami Tafsīr : Zaydī, Ismā'īlī,  Twelver

• Bābī-Bahā'ī Tafsīr

 SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS

See also: http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/BIBLIOGRAPHY-HYP/tafsir-west.htm

The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān (= BCQ)

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.)

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

• (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.
   

Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān (= CCQ)

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed.

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

Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (= EAL)

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

Encyclopedia of Islam (= EI + EI²⁺ + EI²S )

• 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).
•  EI²Supp. = EI² vol. 12.

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

Encyclopedia of Religion.

Enc.Rel. =  Eliade, M. (et al., eds.) Encyclopedia of Religion. 16 vols in 8 Mac­Millan & Free Press: New York, 1987.*

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.).

• 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)

 

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

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

The Qur'an, An Encyclopedia + Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy (= Leaman, Q-Enc & BEIP)

Oliver Leaman,

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

Tradition and Survival (= TAS1)

Modarressi, Hossein.

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

Arabic Lithoraphed Books (= ALB).

Gacek, Adam.

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

Storey, C.A. (= Storey).

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

Bregel, Yuri,

• 1995 – Bibliography of Islamic Central Asia. compiled and edited by Yuri Bregel. Bloomington, IN : Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, 1995 (= Uralic and Altaic series ; v. 160), 3 vols.  

 

PRIMARY TAFSĪR SOURCES  (7th-21st CENTURIES CE)

Select Arabic, Persian and Turkish sources with notice of occasional academic articles.

`Abduh, Muhammad (1266-1323 AH = 1849-1905 CE)

  Egyptian religious scholar and reformer. A key fīgure in the emergence of Islamic modernism and grand mufti of al-Azhar.

• http://www.cis-ca.org/voices/a/abduh.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Abduh

 

 

 

 

• Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah lil-Imām Muḥammad ʻAbduh. al-Jamāmīz [Cairo] : Maktabat al-Ādāb wa Maṭbaʻatuhā, 1986. ( 127 pp.)  ISBN: 977472027X

• al-A`māl al-Kāmila li'l-Imām  Shaykh Muhammad Abduh.  ADD HERE,  XXXX/1974. .

• al-A`māl al-Kāmila li'l-Imam  al-Shaykh Muhammad Abduh.  5 vols. Ed. Dr. Muhammad `Imarah.  Beirut: Dār al-Shurūq, 1414/1993. Qur'ān interpretation is fundamental to certain of these volumes. *

  

  + Muhammad Rashid Ridā' (1865-1935), the Syrian Islamic reformer and disciple of Abduh who lived in Egypt from 1897. 

  Skovgaard-Petersen J.

  `Portrait of the Intellectual as a Young Man: Rashd Rid's Muhwart al-muslih wa-al-muqallid (1906)' in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 12/1, (2001), pp. 93-104(12). 

  Abstract:

  "Rashd Ridā's ideas and ideals of the intellectual are to be found pre-eminently in a work serialized in Al-Manār, in 1901, called Muhwart al-muslih wa-al-muqallid (The Debates of the Reformer and the Traditionalist). This work contains much of Ridā's thinking on religious reform. A very interesting aspect of the work is that it is a work of fiction. It is Ridā's only experiment with fiction, and its aim is to furnish the reader with a portrait of the model Muslim intellectual. The Muhwart can be taken as an example of a representation of a decidedly modernist Muslim intellectual whom the readers of Al-Manār are invited to identify with and take as a role model."

• Tafsīr al-Fātiḥah. n. p. n.d.  1323 /1905  (104 pp. ).

• Tafsir in al-Manār (the Lighthouse) an Egyptian journal published between 18XX and 19XX.

• Tafsir in al-Manār, 12 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Ihya al-Turath al`Arabi. XXXX/2000[??].

• Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-Hakīm al-Shahīr bi-Tafsīr al-Manār, 12 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Ma`rifa, 1414/1993. *

`Abd al-Jabbār = al-Qaḍī `Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ahmad `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 Ahmad 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.).*

`Abd al-Rahmān, Ā'isha.

     • al-Tafsīr al-bayānī li’l-Qur'ān al-karīm. 2nd printing. Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif (Maktabat al-Dirāsāt al-Adabiyya No. 25), 1385/1966. 

• al-Tafsīr al-bayānī li’l-Qur'ān al-karīm. 3rd ed., Cairo 1387/1968

• al-Tafsīr al-bayānī li’l-Qur'ān al-karīm. 3rd impression. 2 vols. Cairo :  Maktabat al-Dirāsāt al-Adabiyya [25] 1387/1968..

`Abū 'Ubayda. Ma'mar b. al-Muthanna al-Taymī (ADD/ADD).

• Majāz al-Qur'ān, ed. F. Sezgin, 2 vols., Cairo 1954-62

al Aḥsā’ī =  Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Zayn al Dīn al-Aḥsā’ī  (b. Ḥasa [Aḥsa] 11XX/17XX - d. Medina 1241/1826).

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") and Balasaris (Ritually, "Facing the Head")... Many of his 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: http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/SHAYKHISM/AL-AHSA'I.htm
• 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.
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Abū al-Suʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, al-ʻImādʾu (ADD  = 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, Irshâd al-’aql al-salîm ilkh. ed. Ḥasan Ahmad Mar’î

• ed. Muhammad al-Sâdiq Qamhāwī. Beirut, c. 1976. 9 vols. in 4. (278, 2 + 265, 1+ 312+312+ 284, 3+ 308+ 288+ 271+ 220 pp.).

Akhfash, Abū ’l-Ḥasan Sa'īd b. Mas'ada al-Akhfash al-Awsat,

• Ma'ānī al-Qur'ān, ed. Fā'iz Fāris al-Hamad, 2nd ed., 2 vols., Kuwait 1981.

• ed. 'Abd al-Amīr Muhammad Amīn al-Ward, Beirut 1405/1985; • ed. Huda Maḥmūd Qurrā'a, Cairo 1990

`Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (b. Mecca c. 600 CE - d. Kufa 40/661). The fī rst Imam for the 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 Tafsir" (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 of 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 Tafsir books or crystallizations of Tafsir tradition are attributed to him. A number of them have in recent years been the subject of academic evaluation. Sunni anti-Shi`i polemic has 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 Tafsir attributed to Ibn `Abbās (d. c. 68 / 687).

Modarressi, Hossein.

• Early Debates on the Integrity of the Qur'an: A Brief Survey Studia Islamica, No. 77. (1993), 5-39.

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

An important`Alid Sunni scholar and commentator of  19th century Baghdad. 

• Ruh = 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. *

al-'Āmilī al-Isfahānī, `Abū 'l Ḥasan (d. Najaf, 1138/1726). A student of Muhammad Baqir Majlisi...

• 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. *

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 wa al-bahr al-Khiḍrim fi Ta`wil Kitab Allāh al-`Aziz al-Muhkam. 7 vols.  Qum: Nur `ala Nur  2007 . 2974pp. ISBN: 9789648016031

al-Anbārī =  Abū ’l-Barakāt 'Abd al-Rahmān b. Muhammad ibn al-Anbārī  (ADD/ADD).

    • al-Bayān fī Gharīb i'rāb al-Qur'ān, ed. Tāhā 'Abd al-Ḥamīd and Muṣṭafā al-Saqqā, 2 vols., Cairo 1969-70

     • Nuzha = Nuzhat al-alibbā' fī ṭabaqat al-udabā', Cairo 1294.

    • Stockholm 1963;

ed. Ibrāhīm al-Sāmarrā'ī, Baghdad 1970

`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. *

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

• Tafsīr al-`Askari. Mss. Brit. Mus. Or. 5582.  Check.

• Tafsīr al-`Askari. Tehran Lithograph 1268/1851-2. ?

• Tafsīr al-`Askari, in the Margins of Tafsir al-Qur'an of `Ali Ibn Ibrahim al-Qumi. Lithograph [Tabriz?] by Hasan ibn Muhammad Amin al-Karamrudi. al-Tabrizi. Karkhanah-i Ahmad 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

• URL = http://www.ahl-ul-bait.org/newlib/Quran/Al_Emam_Al_Askari/index1.htm

Bar-Asher, Meir M.

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

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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. Beirut: Mu`assat al-A`la. 1380-1/  1411/1991. *

• Tafsīr al-Ayyāshī, 2 vols. Beirut: ADD., XXXX/200X

 

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] Bulaq 1294/1877.

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

    Quran commentary  written in 725 / 1325 = Tafsir 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).

• Tafsir al-Qur'an 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.

• Mukhtasar Tafsir 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.

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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)

See URL: Shaykh Bahā'ī

Bahā' al-Dīn al-`Āmilī = Shaykh Bahā'ī.   بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين عاملي   =

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 Tafsir works have been neglected. See Brockelmann,  GAL II: 414-15; Supp. I:76, 741; Supp. II: 595-97. Kohlberg in EIr. III: 429-30.

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

•   العروة الوثقى  al-`Urwat al-Wuthqā'  ("The Firm Handle"),  A Tafsīr work which remains in mss.

• علوم قرآنى `Ulūm Qur'ānī. ("On The Qur'anic Sciences") , in mss..

•  حل الحروف القرآنيه   Ḥall al-ḥurūf al-Qur'ān  ("On the status of the Qur'anic [Isolated] Letters"), in mss.

• Mss. 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'an" (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 http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/mideast/qayeni.htm

    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'an 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 Tafsir 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'an pp.535-552. *
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Baḥrānī, Sayyid Hāshim b. Sulaymān al-Baḥrānī (d. 1107/1695-96), Safavid period Shi`i exegete.

  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.  

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

• البرهان في تفسير القرآن
• 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, 

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al-Bāqillānī ("Greengrocer") =  Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Tayyib al-Bāqillānī (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'an, ed. Muhammad Zaghlül 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-Thaqafī yya, 1987.

Bouman, J.

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

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Bal'amī, Abū `Alī (d.c.387/997) 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.

 

Bashīr al-Dīn Maḥmūd = Mirza Bashīr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Aḥmad (1889-1965 CE), 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.
• Abdul Majid Darya Abadi wrote in praise of this Tafseer in his paper, Siqe Jadeed, Luknow, 18 Nov, 1965. Translations have been published in Arabic, Urdu and English. " (from Wikepedia, Tafsir).
• http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/guide.htm?region=E1Tafseer-e-Kabeer
• http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/guide.htm?region=EN
• http://www3.alislam.org/index.jsp
• http://www.alislam.org/ror/Sept%202006.pdf

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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.).*

• Hasan al-Basri (Makers of the Muslim World). Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2008 (Forthcoming).

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

Brockelmann, GAL Supp. 1: no. 27 pp. 738-732; Riddell, `al-Baydawi' in Leaman, Q-Enc.116-118.

• 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.

• Add office 2007

    حاشيه : Ḥāshiyya (Marginal Notes- Glosses) on the Tafsir of al-Bayḍāwī.

• 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  Hashiyya = Marginal Glosses of Shaykh Baha'i upon the Anwār al-tanzīl of Qaḍī  Bayḍāwī

    al-Qanvi (d. 1195/1781) + Ibn al-Tamciyd (          ) Check this.

• 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.

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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)

• Baiḍāwī's commentary on sūrah 12 of the Qur'ān. Text, accompanied by an interpretative rendering and notes by A. F. L. Beeston. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963  + Beirut 1988

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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
• ADD
• 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'an. This was an unprecedented decision which contradicted a millennium of Islamic prohibition against the religious use of the Bible by the Muslims. The Qur'an 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'an commentary."

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al-Bursevī [Bursawī], Ismā'īl Ḥaqqī (d.1137/1724-5). Esmā`īl Ḥaqqī Bursawī, Ottoman Sufī  commentator. 

• 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-Burujirdī, Sayyid Husayn (ADD/ADD). Modern Shi`i Tafsir.

• تفسيرالصراط المسقيم   Tafsir Sirat al-Mustaqim. Qumm: Ansariyan 460pp. ISBN: 964

 

al-Bustānī, Maḥmūd. بستاني، محمود.

• al-Tafsīr al-bināʾī lil-Qurʾān al-karīm  التفسير البنائي للقرآن الكريم / تأليف محمود البستاني.  Mashhad : Islamic Research Foundation, 1422-1424 [2001/2-2003/4.

Charkhī, Khwaja Ya`qūb (xxxx/xxxx).

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

 

 

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

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

 

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;
• Ed. `Abd al-'Azīz Sayyid al-Ahl (as Qamus al-Qur'ān), Beirut 1970

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

    • Tafsīr = 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. Ahmad (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)
   

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. Ahmad 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).

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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-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 Tafsir attributed to Ibn `Abbās (see above) and is said to have written five other  works of Tafsir. 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]).
 

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

Furāt al-Kūfī  (d. c. 310/922). 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:

"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 hadtths he transmitted or who transmitted hadtths 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; Tafsir Furat (editor's introduction, 2)....

• 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..

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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.

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.
• Ihyḥa ‘ulūm al-dīn (“The Revival of Religious Sciences”) ADD

Mishkat al-anwār.

• 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 

Whittingham, Martin.

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