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Commentaries on the Qur'an, volume by volume: each volume is linked to the verses it covers and to its source.

Commentaries 23 entries

  • Al-Bayan fi Tafsir al-Quran

    Draft card for Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei's al-Bayan fi Tafsir al-Quran; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • al-Tafsir al-Muyassar

    A concise Arabic commentary on the whole Qur'an, prepared by a group of tafsir professors for the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an in Medina as the basis for the Complex's translations of the meanings of the Qur'an; it follows the creed of the early generations, puts sound transmitted exegesis first, and uses plain wording sized to fit the margin of the Medina Mushaf. Its second edition (1430 AH) was revised in light of comments on the first.

  • al-Tafsir al-Wasit lil-Qur'an al-Karim (Tantawi)

    A complete commentary on the Qur'an in fifteen volumes, written by Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi over some fifteen years and finished in Cairo on 26 Rabi' I 1407 AH (28 November 1986). Its author called it a 'middle-sized' scholarly commentary, purged of weak opinions, that explains the words, then gives any accepted occasion of revelation, then the overall meaning, and opens each sura with an introduction on its verse count, place of revelation, names and aims.

  • al-Tibyan fi Tafsir al-Quran

    Draft card for al-Tusi's al-Tibyan fi Tafsir al-Quran, the great Shi'i commentary; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • Ala’ al-Rahman fi Tafsir al-Qur’an

    Draft card for Ala’ al-Rahman fi Tafsir al-Qur’an; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • Haqa'iq al-Tafsir

    A book in which Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami gathered the Sufis' sayings on understanding the Qur'an; the editor of Tabaqat al-Sufiyya says it holds no opinion of al-Sulami's own, only the Sufis' views, yet it brought him enmity: al-Wahidi is reported to have said 'if he believed that this is tafsir, he has disbelieved', and al-Dhahabi said it contains things that are in no way permissible; many manuscripts of it survive.

  • Jami' al-Bayan (Tafsir al-Tabari)

    The Qur'an commentary of Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (224–310 AH), verse by verse, built on reports with chains from the Companions and Successors, with discussions of language, grammar, law and the readings; it draws on the commentaries of Mujahid, al-Dahhak, Atiyya al-Awfi, Ata, Qatada, al-Rabi' ibn Anas and others through fixed chains, and on the books of al-Farra, al-Akhfash and Ibn Qutayba; it stops at the readers' disagreements in 854 places, and al-Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, al-Shawkani, Makki, Ibn Zanjala and al-Nahhas quote it.

  • Tafsir al-'Izz ibn 'Abd al-Salam

    Draft card for Tafsir al-'Izz ibn 'Abd al-Salam; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • Tafsir al-Jalalayn

    A concise commentary on the whole Qur'an by two men called Jalal al-Din: al-Mahalli (d. 864 AH) explained al-Kahf to al-Nas and then al-Fatiha and died before finishing; al-Suyuti completed it in his manner, from the start of al-Baqara to the end of al-Isra', between 1 Ramadan and 10 Shawwal 870 AH. It gives what is needed to understand the text, relies on the most preponderant opinion, parses only where needed and notes the well-known readings, in brief wording.

  • Al-Tafsir al-Kabir (Mafatih al-Ghayb)

    The commentary of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (544–604 AH), known as al-Tafsir al-Kabir and Mafatih al-Ghayb ('The Keys to the Unseen'); it divides the discussion of each verse into 'questions' (masa'il) that set out the views of exegetes and theologians, argue each and then decide or suspend judgement, and attends to grammar, rhetoric and the subtleties of conjunction. In the commentary on Surat al-Waqi'a its writer mentions al-Razi in the third person, and the Dar al-Fikr editors note that this suggests the passage is by another author who completed the book.

  • Tafsir al-Manar

    Tafsir of the Qur'an by Muhammad Rashid Rida, built on the lessons of his teacher Muhammad Abduh and printed in installments in al-Manar from 1318 AH. It aims at the guidance the Qur'an gives and at the needs of Muslims in its author's time. The author did not finish it; the editor says it reaches Q. 12:52.

  • Tafsir al-Maturidi

    Draft card for Abu Mansur al-Maturidi's Ta'wilat Ahl al-Sunna, the earliest surviving Hanafi-Maturidi tafsir; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • Tafsir al-Mawardi

    Draft card for Tafsir al-Mawardi; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • Tafsir al-Mizan

    Draft card for al-Sayyid al-Tabataba'i's Tafsir al-Mizan, the great twentieth-century Imami philosophical commentary; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • Tafsir al-Qummi

    Draft card for Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi's Tafsir, the Imami commentary; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • Tafsir al-Sam'ani

    Draft card for Tafsir al-Sam'ani; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • Tafsir al-Sha'rawi (al-Khawatir)

    A Qur'an commentary delivered orally by Muhammad Mutawalli al-Sha'rawi and later transcribed in books titled Tafsir al-Sha'rawi or al-Khawatir. It takes the verses in order and combines the explanation of meaning with social commentary and admonition. This card rests on one scanned copy whose edition has not been verified.

  • Tafsir al-Tabarani

    Draft card for Tafsir al-Tabarani; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • Tafsir Ibn 'Arafa

    Draft card for Tafsir Ibn 'Arafa; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

  • al-Muharrar al-Wajiz fi Tafsir al-Kitab al-'Aziz (Tafsir Ibn Atiyya)

    The commentary of the judge Abu Muhammad Abd al-Haqq ibn Atiyya of al-Andalus (d. 541 AH), intended to be 'comprehensive, concise and precise': it follows the words of each verse, gives all the readings, accepted and irregular, and the scholars' views attributed to them, and keeps Israelite tales to a minimum. It opens with chapters on the Qur'anic sciences and shaped al-Qurtubi, Ibn Juzayy, Abu Hayyan and al-Tha'alibi.

  • Tafsir Ibn Juzayy (al-Tashil li-Ulum al-Tanzil)

    The commentary of Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi, a concise work explaining words and constructions in short sentences, listing views on a verse with 'it is said' and then weighing them in phrases such as 'the first is preferable and more eloquent', and adding 'notes' (tanbih) on questions such as the differing wording of the same story in different suras, quoting al-Zamakhshari and his teacher Abu Ja'far ibn al-Zubayr; first printed in Cairo in 1355 AH.

  • Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Tafsir al-Qur'an al-'Azim)

    Ibn Kathir's Qur'an commentary, one of the best-known commentaries built on transmitted reports, explaining verses by other verses, by hadith and by the sayings of the Companions and their Successors.

  • Tafsir Sidi Boushaki

    Draft card for Tafsir Sidi Boushaki; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

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