Tafsir al-Tabari

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Most famous
Sunni: Tafsir ibn Kathir — 1301-1373 Tafsir al-Qurtubi — d. 1273 Tafsir al-Tabari — 838–923 Tafsir al-Jalalayn — 1464-1526 Shi'a: Tafsir al-Mizan — 1892-1981
Sunni tafsir
Tanwir al-Miqbas — ? Al-Mu'jam al-Kabeer — ? Tafsir al-Baghawi — 1116 Tafsir of Fakhr al-Din — 1149–1209 Dur al-Manthur — 1464-1526 Fi zilal al-Qur'an — 1954 Tafhim al-Qur'an — 1903-1979 Tadabbur-i-Qur’an — 1904–1997
Shi'a tafsir
Holy Quran (puya) — ? Majma al-Bayan — d. 1153 Nuur al-Thaqalayn — ? al-Safi — 1598 or 9-1680 or 81
Mu'tazili tafsir
— ?-1258 Al-Kashaf — ?
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The commentary on the Qur'an (Arabic:Al-musammá Jami‘ al-bayan fi ta’wil al-Qur’an), popularly Tafsir al-Tabari or Tafsir al-Kabir is a classic Sunni tafsir by the Persian scholar Ibn Jarir al-Tabari.

It is his second great work was after History of the Prophets and Kings. It was marked by the same fullness of detail as the 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.

[edit] People cited in it

Mujahid ibn Jabr ^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Editions

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

Edition published in thirty vols. (with extra index volume) at Cairo, 1902-1903.
Tafsir al-Tabari : al-musammá Jami‘ al-bayan fi ta’wil al-Qur’an. 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.
Commentary on the Quran, Vol.1, Delhi 1987. ISBN 0-19-920142-0
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-?. This translation may not have been carried beyond the first volume and seems to be both out of print and rare.