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Tafsir Gazur is an exegesis on Quran in Persian by Abul al-Mahasin Husayn ibn Hasan Jurjani dating back to around the eight/fourteenth century. The book was originally named Jala' al-Adhhan wa Jala' al-Ahzan. "Gazur" comes from the author's name. According to Aqa Buzurg Tihrani, he was one of the Shia scholars of the tenth/sixteenth century.[1] Tafsir-i Gazur is sometimes referred to "as an abridged version of the exegetic work by Abu al-Futuh Razi" despite having no reference to the latter in the book. According to Ibn Yusuf Shirazi, some sections of this book were collected by Jurjani but others were compiled by someone known as Sayyid Gazur. This view is rejected by Urmawi.
Significance
editTafsir-i Gazur's importance in linguistic and literature is considered equivalent to that of Rawz al-jinan ve ruh al-jinan. Tafsir-i Gazur was used by Molla Fathollah Kashani as the primary source in writing Tafsir Menhaj Al-Sadeghin. Mir Jalal al-Din Muhaddith Urmawi was the first to publish Tafsir-i Gazur in ten volumes between 1337-1341/1958-1962.[2]
References
edit- ^ Aqa Bozorg Tehrani, Az-Zaree'a ila Tasaneef ush-Shia
- ^ Gholamali Haddad Adel, Mohammad Jafar Elmi, and Hassan Taromi-Rad, Qur’anic Exegeses Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam