Tafsir al-Tabari

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Most famous

Sunni: Tafsir ibn Kathir Tafsir al-Qurtubi Tafsir al-Tabari Tafsir al-Jalalayn Shi'a: Tafsir al-Mizan

Sunni tafsir

Tanwir al-Miqbas Tafsir al-Baghawi Tafsir of Fakhr al-Din Dur al-Manthur Fi zilal al-Qur'an Tadabbur-i-Qur'an Ma'ariful Quran

Shi'a tafsir

Al-Mizan Fi Tafsir al-Qur'an Holy Quran (puya) Majma' al-Bayan Nur al-Thaqalayn al-Safi

Sufi tafsir

Tafsir Ibn Arabi

Mu'tazili tafsir

Al-Kashshaf

Terms

Asbab al-nuzul

The commentary on the Qur'an (Arabic:Jāmi` al-bayān `an ta'wīl āy al-Qur'ān), popularly Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī (Arabic: تفسير الطبري‎) is a classic Sunni tafsir by the Persian scholar Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari.

It is his second great work after "Tarīkh al-Umam wa'l Muluk" History of the Prophets and Kings, famously known as "Tarikh al-Tabari". It was marked by the same fullness of detail as his other work. The size of this work and the independence of judgment in it seem to have prevented it from having a large circulation, but scholars such as Baghawi and Suyuti used it largely. Ibn Kathir used it in his Tafsir ibn Kathir.

Editions

Editions of Tabari's commentary on the Qur'an:

• Edition published in thirty vols. (with extra index volume) at Cairo, 1902-1903; reprinted in 1984.
• Tafsir al-Tabari : al-musammá Jami' al-bayan fi ta'wil al-Qur'an. New edition published in 12 volumes by Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyah, Beirut, 1997.
• An account with brief extracts given by O. Loth in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, vol. xxxv. (1881), pp. 588-628.
• The commentary on the Qur'an, by Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. Jarir al- Tabari ; being an abridged translation of Jami' al-bayan 'an ta'wil ay al-Qur'an, with an introduction and notes by J. Cooper, general editors, W.F. Madelung, A. Jones. Oxford University Press, 1987. The late author did not carry this beyond the first volume. It is out of print.
• Commentary on the Quran, Vol. 1, Delhi 1987. ISBN 0-19-920142-0. This is a replica of the Cooper translation.
• Web based publication at AlTafsir.com.
• Software component of Qur'an software published by Ekabakti.com.

See also

• List of Sunni books

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