A Comparative Study of Comprehensiveness of the Quran According to the "Tafsir al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Quran" and "Rooh al-Ma'ani fi Tafsir al-Quran al-'Adhim"

Abstract

Comprehensiveness of the Quran is one of the important foundations for its comprehension and interpretation, which has been noticed and considered by old and new commentators. Among the commentators who have seriously raised the issue in their commentaries, we can refer to Allamah Tabatabaii and Alusi Baghdadi. The studies show that although Alusi devotes a special chapter to this issue, he is in a kind of astonishment and fails to free himself from the questions and doubts which come to his mind. That is why we see him moving towards a minimal view in some parts of his commentary and towards a moderate or maximal one in other parts. The review of Allamah's remarks, however, shows that the only acceptable view for the comprehensiveness of Quran is moderate comprehensiveness in his view; he rejects and criticizes the other viewpoints. The present paper comparatively studies the view of these great commentators in this regard. Ali Ahmad Naseh[1] Farzad Esfandiyari[2] [1] Associate professor of department of sciences of the Quran and hadith, Qom University [2] PhD student of comparative commentary, Qom University Date Received: 2015/8/19, Date of acceptance: 2016/1/6

Keywords

• comprehensiveness of the quran
• comparative commentary
• foundations
• al-mizan
• rooh al-ma'ani