Al Fauz Al Kabir Fi Usul At Tafsir

Al Fauz Al Kabir Fi Usul At Tafsir is Shah Waliullah Dehlawi's systematic study of the principles necessary for a disciplined understanding of the Qur'an. The preface presents the work as an important introduction to Qur'anic study, distinguished by an independent method intended to clarify interpretive difficulties and guide students and commentators in approaching the revealed text. Rather than proceeding as a continuous commentary, the work examines the intellectual foundations of tafsir. Its opening discussions consider five principal sciences associated with Qur'anic discourse, including disputation, divine injunctions, divine favours and punishments, and related theological questions. The author then considers the arrangement and meanings of Qur'anic passages, abrogation, occasions of revelation, points of obscurity, and the characteristic style of the Qur'an. Further sections examine exegesis, transmitted traditions, juristic and interpretive inference, Qur'anic rarities, God-given sciences, abbreviated letters, and related questions encountered by the serious student of revelation. The introductory discussion explains that the treatise was composed to provide principles that assist readers in understanding the Qur'an without becoming dependent upon extensive commentary literature for every interpretive question. Particular attention is given to the relationship between revelation, language, context, interpretation, and the underlying purposes for which verses were revealed. The manuscript also considers occasions of revelation while cautioning against reducing every verse to an isolated historical incident; it instead emphasizes the larger moral and revelatory purposes addressed by the Qur'anic text. This English edition is suited to students of tafsir, Qur'anic studies, Islamic intellectual history, theology, and the interpretive foundations of Islamic jurisprudence. It will also be useful to academic libraries, seminaries, researchers, and readers studying classical Muslim approaches to revelation. A compact classical treatise, Al Fauz Al Kabir Fi Usul At Tafsir presents tafsir as a disciplined science grounded in textual structure, transmitted knowledge, interpretive reasoning, and careful attention to the purposes of revelation.