أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل

أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل

Al-Baydawi's Anwar al-Tanzil wa-Asrar al-Ta'wil — the tafsir that 'won gracious acceptance among the generality of the learned', generating dozens of glosses and supercommentaries 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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"Anwar al-Tanzil wa Asrar al-Ta'wil" (The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation), a Qur'anic commentary by the judge Nasir al-Din Abu Sa'id Abdullah ibn Umar al-Baydawi the Shafi'i, who died in Tabriz. 2

Hajji Khalifa says that the book was well received by the majority of scholars, who devoted themselves to studying it and writing glosses on it. 2

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Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar

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Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar

Sources

  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.), p. 672-674
  2. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.), p.672
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islam.museum contributors. “أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/anwar-al-tanzil/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Qur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples.
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Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar

A jurist, Qur'an commentator, theologian and legal theorist, author of Anwar al-Tanzil.