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The 40 pages that link to Tafsir, each with the reason it gives.
QuranRelated: Tafsir explains Quranic language, context, and meaning through established interpretive traditions.
HadithRelated: Commentators use hadith to explain Quranic passages and their contexts.
Al-TabariNarrower topic: Al-Tabari's Quran commentary became one of the most influential works in this interpretive tradition.
Islamic modernismRelated: Modernist Quranic interpretation connected scripture to contemporary social and scientific questions.
AdabCompared with: Tafsir centers on Quranic exegesis, while adab draws on a wider range of subjects and forms.
Hadith studiesRelated: Hadith reports can provide transmitted context and explanations for Qur’anic passages.
Islamic eschatologyRelated: Commentaries explain Quranic passages about judgment, resurrection, and the end.
Classical ArabicRelated: Tafsir draws on classical grammar, lexicon, rhetoric, and transmitted explanations.
Islamic feminismBroader topic: Feminist interpretations engage a long tradition of Qur'anic commentary and its assumptions about gender.
Treaty of HudaybiyyahNarrower topic: Commentaries connect the Quran’s language of victory with the Hudaybiyyah agreement.
NaskhRelated: Tafsir can resolve apparent tension without concluding that one passage abrogates another.
ExegesisBroader topic: This tradition supplies a developed framework for Quranic exegesis.
HawzaRelated: Quranic interpretation is one strand of the broader religious education offered in a hawza.
JizyaRelated: Commentators interpreted the verse later jurists used to ground jizya.
TajwidCompared with: Tafsir interprets meaning, while tajwid prescribes correct oral recitation.
Islamic scholarshipBroader topic: Tafsir applies linguistic, transmitted, and contextual methods to scripture.
JannahRelated: Commentators explain the language and significance of Quranic descriptions of Jannah.
Isra and Mi'rajNarrower topic: Tafsir discusses how Quranic passages relate to the journey’s narrative.
TaqwaRelated: Tafsir traces how interpreters explain taqwa across Quranic passages and contexts.
Ibn KathirNarrower topic: Ibn Kathir is best known for his influential work in this interpretive tradition.
Islamic studiesBroader topic: Tafsir shows how Quranic meaning has been argued across genres and historical periods.
AkhirahRelated: Tafsir explains Quranic passages that describe resurrection and final judgment.
Isra'iliyyatNarrower topic: Isra'iliyyat entered Islamic scholarship chiefly through works explaining Qur'anic passages.
Fakhr al-Din al-RaziRelated: His expansive commentary became a major model for later works of tafsir.
Hasan al-BasriRelated: Reports attributed to Hasan became part of the material cited in later Quran commentary.
Quranic studiesBroader topic: Its commentaries form a major body of evidence and a central object of study.
Islamic literatureBroader topic: Tafsir combines interpretation with linguistic, historical, and narrative traditions.
SīrahRelated: Tafsir centers scriptural explanation, while Sīrah arranges reports around Muhammad’s life.
Ibn AbbasNarrower topic: Ibn Abbas is remembered as an early authority in this broader interpretive tradition.
Muhammad al-BaqirRelated: Reports from al-Baqir preserve interpretations of Quranic verses.
Al-QurtubiNarrower topic: Al-Qurtubi’s best-known work belongs to this tradition of Qur’anic commentary.
Criticism of IslamRelated: Interpretive disagreements affect claims about what Quranic passages teach.
SurahRelated: Tafsir examines a surah’s language, themes, historical setting, and meaning.
Abu al-DardaRelated: His Qur’anic instruction belongs to the early history of explaining scripture.
AsiyaRelated: Commentaries connect the unnamed believing wife in the Qur’an with Asiya.
I'jazRelated: Commentaries explain passages often cited in discussions of the Qur’an’s challenge and inimitability.
Iram of the PillarsRelated: Commentators differ over whether Iram names a city, a people, or a lineage.
Islamic mythologyRelated: Commentaries often preserve narrative details that later storytellers developed.
Prophets and messengers in IslamRelated: Commentators explain prophetic passages and assess reports about their figures.
Sources of ShariaRelated: Interpretation determines how Quranic passages bear on legal questions.