About The Book

Tabari’s Comprehensive Exposition of the Interpretation of the Verses of the Qur’an is one of the great monuments of classical Arabic and Islamic scholarship which, over a millennium, has been a fundamental reference work for scholars engaged in the tradition of Qur’anic exegesis.

This two-volume translation focuses on thirty selected verses and Surahs, or Chapters, associated with special merits and blessings and also includes Tabari’s own introduction to the Comprehensive Exposition.

Volume I Contains:

• Tabari’s introduction
• The Opening (Al-Fatiha)
• The Throne Verse (Ayat al-Kursi) and the final three verses from The Cow (Al-Baqarah), (2:255 and 284–286)
• The Family of 'Imran (Aal-e-'Imran) (3:7 and 18)
• Repentance (At-Taubah) (9:38–40 and 128–129)
• The story of Moses and al-Khadir from The Cave (Al-Kahf) (18:60–82)
• The Verse of Light from The Light, (An-Noor) (24:35–42)
• Prostration (Sajda)
• Ya' Sin.

Volume II Contains:

• The Companies (Az-Zumar) (39:53–55)
• The Smoke (Ad-Dukhan)
• The Beneficent (Ar-Rahman)
• The Inevitable Occasion (Al-Waqiyah)
• Iron (Al-Hadid)
• The Gathering (Al-Hashr) (59:18–24)
• Sovereignty (Al-Mulk)
• The Resurrection (Al-Qiyamah)
• The Most High (Al-A'ala)
• The Sun (Al-Shams)
• The Night (Al-Layl)
• The Earthquake (Al-Zalzala)
• The Chargers (Al-Adiyat)
• Rivalry (At-Takathur)
• The Disbelievers (Al-Kafirun)
• Aid (An-Nasr)
• Sincerity (Al-Ikhlas)
• Daybreak (Al-Falaq)
• People (An-Nas)