Tafsir al-Qurtubi – Introduction
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Aisha Bewley
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About The Book
The tafsir of al-Qurtubi is perhaps one of the most compendious of them all and is certainly among the most famous. As its title, al-Jami‘ li Ahkam al-Qur'an – The General Judgments of the Qur'an, suggests, its main focus is on the rulings and judgments to be found in the Qur'an. However, in the course of doing that, al-Qurtubi examines all the relevant sciences necessary, such as the hadith pertaining to the ayahs, events in the sirah, what the Companions, their Followers and other noted people of knowledge said about the ayahs, essential aspects of Arabic etymology, syntax and usage, copiously illustrated by examples, and much more.
In this introduction, the author lays out some of the key themes of the Qur'an: Its virtues and the reciter's; how to recite it; cautioning against showing off; what the one who knows the Qur'an must do and not neglect to do; learning its syntax; the excellence of tafsir; the excellence of the bearer of the Qur'an; the respect and esteem mandatory for the Qur'an; threats against engaging in tafsir by means of opinion (ra'y); the Book being explained by the Sunnah; how to learn and understand the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet's; that it used to be easier to act by it than to memorise it; the words of the Prophet's; “The Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf (dialects/modes)”; the seven readings; the collection of the Qur'an; the memorisation of the Qur'an by the Companions at the time of the Prophet's; the order of the surahs and ayahs of the Qur'an; the meaning of the words surah, ayah, kalimah (word) and harf (letter); non-Arabic words in the Qur'an; the inimitability of the Qur'an; hadiths forged about the excellence of the surahs of the Qur'an; refutation of those who attack the Qur'an; the Seeking Refuge with Allah from Shaytan and the Basmalah.
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About the author
Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Qurtubi: Al-Qurtubi (d. 671 AH / 1273 CE), in full Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ansari al-Khazraji al-Qurtubi, was among the foremost Qurʾan commentators of the Muslim West. He was born in Cordoba in al-Andalus and trained there in the religious sciences, Maliki in law and Ashʿari in creed, with deep command of tafsir, hadith, the canonical readings (qiraʾat), and Arabic grammar. After the Christian conquest of Cordoba he migrated eastward, eventually settling at Munyat Ibn Khasib in Upper Egypt, where he passed his remaining years in worship, scholarship, and a noted disdain for worldly honors. His landmark work is al-Jamiʿ li-Ahkam al-Qurʾan, universally known as Tafsir al-Qurtubi, a vast commentary in some twenty volumes. Unlike commentaries crowded with narrative and history, al-Qurtubi concentrated on the legal rulings derived from the Qurʾan and how scholars inferred them, while also treating variant readings, grammar, and the science of abrogation (nasikh wa mansukh). It remains one of the most consulted classical tafsirs to this day. He is also remembered for al-Tadhkira fi ahwal al-mawta wa-umur al-akhira, an influential treatise on death, the grave, and the events of the hereafter, and is credited with a commentary on the Beautiful Names of God. He died and was buried in Egypt.
About the translator
Aisha Bewley: Aisha Bewley (b. 1948 CE) is one of the most prolific and respected translators of classical Arabic Islamic literature into English. Born in the United States, she earned a BA in French and an MA in Near Eastern languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and undertook further study at the American University in Cairo. She embraced Islam in 1968 and has since devoted more than four decades to rendering the texts of the Islamic tradition into clear, accessible English. Her best-known work is The Noble Qur'an, a translation of the meanings of the Qur'an produced with her husband, Abdalhaqq Bewley, and first published in 1999. Among her landmark translations are the Muwatta' of Imam Malik ibn Anas (1989), a foundational early collection of hadith and Maliki fiqh, and the multi-volume Tafsir of al-Qurtubi (2003 onward). Her wider output spans creed, law, and Prophetic biography, including abridgements and renderings of works such as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's writing on the soul after death and classical descriptions of the noble character and appearance of the Prophet, peace be upon him. WorldCat records her as author or translator of dozens of works across many editions, and in 2023 she was named Muslim Woman of the Year by The Muslim 500, which recognizes the world's most influential Muslims. Her translations are valued for fidelity to the Arabic and readable English, and remain in steady use among English-speaking students of the tradition.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781908892577
Publisher
Diwan Press
Author
Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Qurtubi
Pages
93
Translator
Aisha Bewley
Year Published
2018
Size
W-6.7 in | H-9.5 in | D-0.3 in
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