Tafsir Noor is an
exegesis
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on the
Quran
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by
Iran
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ian cleric
Mohsin Qara'ati in
Persian
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. The book has 12 volumes and won "Book of the Year Award" in 1997 from the President of
Iran
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. Before publishing his own commentary on Qur'an, the author was a contributing member of the
Tafsir Nemooneh
Tafsir ( ar, تفسير, tafsīr ) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' ( ar, مُفسّر; plural: ar, مفسّرون, mufassirūn). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, in ...
team. In the introduction, the author admits relying on older
tafsir
Tafsir ( ar, تفسير, tafsīr ) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' ( ar, مُفسّر; plural: ar, مفسّرون, mufassirūn). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, in ...
works, such as
Majma' al-Bayan
Majma‘ al-Bayan fi-Tafsir al-Qur'an ( ar, مجمع البيان في تفسير القرآن) is a tafsir by the 12th century Imami scholar and author Shaykh Tabarsi.
This commentary is a comprehensive classical tafsir. Tabarsi was a man of gr ...
,
Tafsir al-Kabir (al-Razi)
''Mafatih al-Ghayb'' (), usually known as ''al-Tafsir al-Kabir'' (), is a classical Islamic tafsir book, written by the twelfth-century Islamic theologian and philosopher Fakhruddin Razi (d.1210). The book is an exegesis and commentary on the Qur ...
,
Tafsir Noor al-Thaqalayn Tafsir Noor al-Thaqalayn is an exegesis on the Quran written by Abdul Ali Aroussi Howayzi, shia jurist and hadith narrator in the late 11th or early 12th century Hijri/17th Century AD. This commentary on the Quran is considered as narrative since i ...
,
Ruh al-Ma'ani,
Tafsir al-Mizan
''Al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Qur'an'' ( ar, الميزان في تفسير القرآن, "The balance in Interpretation of Quran"), more commonly known as ''Tafsir al-Mizan'' () or simply ''Al-Mizan'' (), is a tafsir (exegesis of the Quran) written by ...
,
Fi Zilal al-Quran
''Fi Zilal al-Qur'an'' ( ar, في ظِلالِ القرآن, fī ẓilāl al-qur'ān, lit=In the Shade of the Qur'an) is a highly influential commentary of the Qur'an, written during 1951-1965 by the Egyptian Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966), a leader with ...
,
Tafsir Safi Tafsir Safi (full name: al-Safi fi Tafsir Kalam Allah al-Wafi) is an exegesis of the Qur'an written by 17th century Shia scholar Mohsen Fayz Kashani. This commentary on the Qur'an, may also be classified as a work on hadith, for it consists largely ...
,
Atyab al-bayan,
Tafsir Nemooneh
Tafsir ( ar, تفسير, tafsīr ) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' ( ar, مُفسّر; plural: ar, مفسّرون, mufassirūn). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, in ...
and
Tafsir Rahnama
''Tafsir Rahnama'' is a contemporary 20 volume exegesis on Qur'an in Persian. So far 17 volumes of this work have been published. The book is based on Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's studies on Qur'an.
Background
Hashemi spent 3 years in jail from 197 ...
up to seventy percent; the rest he says are his own findings.
Structure
In this book, the author starts with translation of the
verses, the situation in which it was revealed, and related traditions on the verses. He then poses some questions that might come to a reader's mind and addresses them. He concludes the commentary of each passage with the morals of the verses.
Mehr News Network: Tafsir Noor will be translated to English (Persian)
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See also
*Qur'an
The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , sing. ...
* Qur'anic exegesis (Tafsir)
*List of tafsir works
The following is a list of tafsir works. ''Tafsir'' is a body of commentary and explication, aimed at explaining the meanings of the Qur'an, the central religious text of Islam. Tafsir can broadly be categorized by its affiliated Islamic schools ...
References
Shia tafsir
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