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Majma‘ al-Bayan fi-Tafsir al-Qur'an ( ) is a tafsir by the 12th century Imami scholar and author Shaykh Tabarsi . This commentary is a comprehensive classical tafsir. Tabarsi was a moderate scholar and he presented the views of all major commentators fairly and comprehensively. He gives special prominence to Shi'i tafsir, but his work is not, strictly speaking, a Shi'i commentary.1 Tabarsi was a man of great erudition. He was a master of Arabic and a noted theologian and jurist. The work is considered one of the most authoritative Imami Qur'an commentaries. Al-Tabrisi’s method is to take up one group of verses at a time and discuss qira’at, language and grammar before providing a detailed commentary on the text, based on both Sunni and Shi‘i sources and incorporating his own views. His commentary for each passages are divided into five sections: introductory discourse, reading guide, language discourse, revelation and circumstances surrounding it, and meaning Majma' al-bayan is written after Al-Tibbyan Fi Tafsir al-Quran and is clearly dependent on it. Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi 's Tafsir Hedayat , an eighteen volume exegesis on the Quran published in Arabic in Iran in the 1980s, is in part a discussion of Majma‘ al-bayan.
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Majma‘ al-bayan li-‘ulum al-Qur’an is a tafsir by the 12th century Imami scholar and author al-Fadl ibn al-Hasan al-Tabrisi . The work is considered one of the most authoritative Imami Qur’an commentaries. Al-Tabrisi’s method is to take up one group of verses at a time and discuss qira’at, language and grammar before providing a detailed commentary on the text, based on both Sunni and Shi‘i sources and incorporating his own views. Al-Bayan fi tafseer al-Quran is a book by Ayatullah Khoei. v t e
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Majma‘ al-Bayan fi-Tafsir al-Qur'an ( ) is a tafsir by the 12th century Imami scholar and author Shaykh Tabarsi . This commentary is a comprehensive classical tafsir. Tabarsi was a man of great erudition. He was a master of Arabic and a noted theologian and jurist. The work is considered one of the most authoritative Imami Qur'an commentaries. Al-Tabrisi's method is to take up one group of verses at a time and discuss qira’at, language and grammar before providing a detailed commentary on the text, based on both Sunni and Shi‘i sources and incorporating his own views. His commentary for each passages are divided into five sections: introductory discourse, reading guide, language discourse, revelation and circumstances surrounding it, and meaning Majma' al-bayan is written after Al-Tibbyan Fi Tafsir al-Quran and is clearly dependent on it. Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi 's Tafsir Hedayat , an eighteen volume exegesis on the Quran published in Arabic in Iran in the 1980s, is in part a discussion of Majma‘ al-bayan.
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Majma‘ al-Bayan fi-Tafsir al-Qur'an ( Arabic : مجمع البيان في تفسير القرآن ) is a tafsir by the 12th century Imami scholar and author Shaykh Tabarsi . This commentary is a comprehensive classical tafsir. Tabarsi was a man of great erudition. He was a master of Arabic and a noted theologian and jurist. The work is considered one of the most authoritative Imami Qur'an commentaries. Al-Tabrisi's method is to take up one group of verses at a time and discuss qira’at, language and grammar before providing a detailed commentary on the text, based on both Sunni and Shi‘i sources and incorporating his own views. His commentary for each passages are divided into five sections: introductory discourse, reading guide, language discourse, revelation and circumstances surrounding it, and meaning Majma' al-bayan is written after Al-Tibbyan Fi Tafsir al-Quran and is clearly dependent on it. Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi 's Tafsir Hedayat , an eighteen volume exegesis on the Quran published in Arabic in Iran in the 1980s, is in part a discussion of Majma‘ al-bayan.
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tafsir by the 12th century imami scholar and author al-fadl ibn al-hasan al-tabrisi
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written after al-tibbyan fi tafsir al-quran and is clearly dependent on it
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