The Minor Qur’an Commentary of Abu ‘Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad b. al-Husayn as-Sulami (d. 412/1021). [Ziyadat haqa’iq At-Tafsir]

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255 pp of Arabic text + 23 pp of English text (introduction), 6 b/w plates, index, biblio, footnotes, Serie Recherches 17, Nouvelle Serie: Langue Arabe et Pensee Islamique. Hard back binding in D/W. Copy in Mint condition, New. Dar Al-Machreq, Beirut, 1997, Second and revised Edition, ISBN: 2721460072 This work is a Sufi Qur'an commentary based on a unique manuscript that is preserved in the Gazi Husrev Begova Bibliotheka in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The manuscript includes considerable new and original source material for the early history of Sufism that cannot be found elsewhere. It illustrates the Sufi method of interpreting the Qur'an that inspired a significant body of Arabic (and later Persian) literature of Qur'an commentary.