tafsir (tafsīr)

(Language: Arabic)

Short Description: Commentary, interpretation; refers to the fourteen hundred year tradition of Qur’ānic commentary in Islam

Long Description: Commentary, interpretation; refers to the fourteen hundred year tradition of Qur’ānic commentary in Islam. It is said that the first commentary upon the Qur’ān is the ḥadīth.

Sources: Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition, edited by Dr. Joseph Lumbard