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tafsir  Term Image (tafsīr) Script Image
(Language:  Arabic)
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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.
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Source(s): Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition, edited by Dr. Joseph Lumbard
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Provided By: Dictionary of Spiritual Terms