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The language of the Quran, Arabic, is discussed and the view that there are foreign words in the Quran is rejected. Tabari mentions that these foreign words are coherent with Arabic, entering the Arabic language before the revelation of the Quran, and that they are very rare, and cannot be used as
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gives information about older commentaries which have not survived to the present. Its content —which encompasses dictionaries, historical notes, law, recitation, theology and Arabic literature— has made it a highly referenced book throughout history, resulting in many editions. It is also a good
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for the reports included in the commentary, sometimes elaborating on the trustworthiness of narrators. Narratives are selected based on their authenticity; a notable example is the rejection of the same historical sources he had already used for his historical works.
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of this word of God is) for every verse. Then hadith and other previous interpretations are stated and classified according to their compatibility to each other. Interpretation using other verses and Arabic language is favored, qualifying this tafsir as
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Al-Tabari incorporated an earlier commentary by ‘Abd al-Razzaq b. Hamman al-Himyari al-San‘ani (d. 211/827) in its entirety into his work, and Heribert Horst has argued that Al-Tabari has also used other subsequently lost commentaries.
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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
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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
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occasionally in his book. Given only as notice, this information is not dwelled upon, usually left for the understanding of the reader.
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Lexical meanings of words are given, and their use in Arabic culture is examined. Tabari's linguistic views are based on the school of
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C.E. Bosworth. Encyclopedia of Islam 2nd ed, Brill. "Al-Tabari, Abu Djafar Muhammad b. Djarir b. Yazid", Vol. 10, p. 14.
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into Persian. The Persian translation of the tafsir has survived and has been published numerous times in Iran.
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finished his work in 883, often dictating sections to his students. It is his second great work after
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example of reasoning in a tafsir by a widely accepted scholar, giving it a value of
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of Ibn Muṭarrif al-Ṭarafī (d. 454/1062): Stories of the Prophets from al-Andalus',
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New edition published in 12 volumes by Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyah, Beirut, 1997.
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wrote: "If we had this work, we could do without all the later commentaries."
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Opening lines of the Quran from a Persian translation of Tafsir al-Tabari
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Tafsir al-Tabari : al-musammá Jami' al-bayan fi ta'wil al-Qur'an.
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Edition published in thirty vols. (with extra index volume) at
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are given, including its superiority to any other text, what
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The Qur'an with Annotated Interpretation in Modern English
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The Majestic Quran: An English Rendition of Its Meanings
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Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft
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An account with brief extracts given by O. Loth in the
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on the permissibility of translating the Quran into
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(1881), pp. 588–628. 312:scholar, reflected in his opinions on 99:Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āy al-Qurʾān 1452:Works by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari 727: 226:where necessary. Tabari supplies the 202:), also known as "Tarikh al-Tabari". 331:Although rare, Tabari has included 320:are usually given according to the 136: 107: 53: 13: 667: 283:al-qawlu fī ta'wīli qawlihi ta'ālā 14: 1463: 697: 195:History of the Prophets and Kings 316:debates in his book. 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Arabic
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Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
Quran
history
Persian
Transoxania
Samanid
Mansur I
Tabari
History of the Prophets and Kings
narratives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
sahabah
tabi'in
chain of narrations
Quran
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tawil
qira'at
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