Abu al-Futuh al-Razi ( ar, أبو الفتوح الرازي), full name Abū al-Futūḥ al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khuzāʿī al-Rāzī al-Nīsābūrī () or Abu al-Futuh Jamal al-Din al-Razi al-Nisaburi (), also known as Khaza'i Nishaburi (

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6th A.H./12th century), was a Shiʿite theologian and author. He came from an

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family originally from

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and supposedly from the Khuza'a tribe, which settled in Nishapur. His grandfather had moved to Rayy, where he taught and later died in or after 1131 CE. His most famous work, '' Rawz al-jinan wa Ruh al-Janan'', is considered the first Persian-language exegesis on the

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. The book, consisting of twenty volumes, is the earliest surviving Persian tafsīr with an

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Shīʿī emphasis. It delves into mystical themes regularly.Abu l-Futuh al-Razi's entry in Brill Online Encyclopedia of Islam
by Gleave, Robert M.Abu l-Futuh al-Razi's entry in Encyclopedia Islamica
by Negahban, Farzin

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{{Authority control Quranic exegesis scholars 1131 deaths People from Ray, Iran 12th-century Persian-language writers 12th-century Arabs Iranian Shia scholars of Islam