... elucidated struck other Muslims as heretical and even unislamic, so much so that they strongly objected to the use of “Islam” to describe Elijah Muhammad's movement. Elijah Muhammad produced no systematic tafsīr, or commentary on the Qur'an, and none of his writings even takes the form...

... ibn Sulaymān al Balhī Muqātil isrāʾīliyyāt al Ṭabarī Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad al Rāzī Fakhr al Dīn al Thaʿlabī Aḥmad b Muḥammad rabbis midrash hermeneutics principles of interpretation church fathers Augustine tafsīr al-Tabari ‘And if all the trees of the earth were pens and the oceans ink...

...The period 800–1000 coincides with the systematization of the Islamic disciplines. The entry surveys research debates on the developme\nt and dating of tafsīr with special focus on its relationship with linguistics and legal hermeneutics (uṣūl al-fiqh...

... and the glosses they spawned as central to this history. The article identifies the most important tools to study and document the medieval history of tafsīr, noting the academic production of the Islamic world in tafsīr. Ottoman contribution to the history of the field is also...

...This chapter argues that modern tafsīr is intimately tied to the rise of a new mode of theological writing and development in the Islamic world. With the demise of medieval Kalām, and its vocabulary, scriptural exegesis is now the new way of doing theology...

...Although Ibāḍīs wrote frequently on philology, rhetoric, theology, and the sciences of Qur’an interpretation, there has been little interest in the composition of complete Ibāḍī tafsīrs until the modern period. Ibāḍī teachers taught Qur’anic interpretation to their students using...

...This chapter gives an overview of the state of scholarship on classical Qur’anic hermeneutics with an emphasis on applied hermeneutics as evidenced in Qur’anic commentaries (tafsīr); it focuses on a period that roughly starts in the fourth/tenth century and that continues...

... sources available to us to clarify the matter. Two early texts that focus on legal aspects of the Qurʾān comprise sources that have not yet been fully tapped in discussing these questions. One work is by Muqātil b. Sulaymān, who died in 150/767 and, while the text in question, Tafsīr al-Khams Miʾat Ā ya...

...The introduction contextualizes the main question and ambitions of the work. It contains a review of relevant literature on Sufi tafsīr and on Sufi eschatology, and a discussion of the key concepts and terms of the study. dhawq taste friend of God walī awliyāʾ night prayer taste...

... Fakhr al Dīn al Sufism Ṭabarī Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al Baṣrī al Ḥasan al Joseph Yūsuf Khadīja bint Khuwailid Zulaykha Azīz Battle of Badr feminism nafs Sells Michael tafsīr Islam feminism woman tawḥīd divine immanence nafs prophesy fitna shūra The gender contestations revolving around...

... of “tafsīr of praxis,” constitute central theoretical tenets that importantly mark Muslim women’s activism in South Africa. Shaikh Shamima South Africa Jeenah Na’eem Muslim Youth Movement MYM Claremont Main Road Mosque wadud amina Muslim personal law MPL Muslim Marriages Bill MMB Hendricks Muhsin...

...Despite sweeping generalizations about the classical exegetical tradition’s perspectives on women and gender, few scholarly works have closely engaged classical exegetical texts on women and gender. This chapter explores primary sources of premodern Qurʾānic exegesis (tafsīr...

...–65 961–76 Tafsīr i Tabarī al Ṭabarī Muḥammad ibn Jarīr Abū Jaʿfar d 310 923 Anatolia Konya Abū Ḥanīfa Nuʿmān ibn Thābit d 150 767 Bektaş Hacı Köprülü Fuat Rūmī Jalāl al Dīn d 672 1273 Togan Zeki Velidi Topaloğlu Ahmet Zadeh Travis Iran South Asia South East Asia al Bayḍāwī Nāṣir al Dīn d...

... looks at the dynamic relationship between God, the Qur’ān, tafsīr, the characters in Qur’ānic stories, and the audience. This chapter introduces the overarching questions examined in the book, of how Qur’ānic stories withhold knowledge, create consonance and forge connections. approach...

... Muqāranat Baʿḍ Nuṣūṣ al Hayʾa bi l Wārid fī al Nuṣūṣ al Sharʿiyya Fikrī Ottoman Rawḍat al Madāris journal Ṣidqī Tawfīq Stolz Daniel A tafsīr ʿilmī “scientific exegesis” of the Qurʾan Wādī al Nīl journal Wajdī Farīd Beirut Cairo Afghānī Jamāl al Dīn al Renan Ernest Tanbīh al ʿUqūl al Insāniyya li...

... to take place outside the scholarly genre of Qurʾanic exegesis (tafsīr). The trivialization of tafsīr in contemporary scholarship primarily stems from a priori conclusions about the exegetical tradition as patriarchal, misogynist, or averse to women’s perspectives...

...The past two decades have witnessed a proliferation of scholarship focused on women and gender in the Qurʾan. Yet, much of the scholarship evades a substantive engagement with tafsīr as a scholarly genre. This lack of engagement with tafsīr in the field of women...

...This chapter situates reformist Qur’ān commentaries within the larger context of the long and rich tafsīr tradition by exploring the extent to which modern tafsīr differs from the classical and medieval tafsīr. It discusses Muslim reformers...

... and Christian falsification of revelation; criticisms over divine sonship and the Trinity; and cautions or prohibitions regarding the taking of Jews and Christians as patrons, allies, or intimates. One of the main arguments put forth in this book is that modern Qur’ān commentaries (tafsīr...

...From the epistemology of a narrative paragon, Joseph in the Qurʾan, we move on in this chapter to consider three case studies, one from each of the following genres: tafsīr, sīrah and hadith. These are all still emphatically religious textual corpora. The aim...