Historical Study of the Evaluation of Jami'ul Bayanfita'awil Ay'al-Qur'an (Tafsir Attabari)

Abstract

It is rightly observed that, "there is no Book in the world in whose service so much talent, so much Labour, so much time and money have been expended, as has been the case with the Qur'an." Tafsir literature is so voluminous that no single man can compass a perusal of the whole. This paper is an attempt to analyse, briefly, one of the enormous expositions of talent, embodied in the mammoth work entitled Jami'ul Bayan‘An Ta'awil Ayi Qur'an, by the erudite scholar, Muhammad Ibn Jabrir at-Tabari.