Al-Baydawi's commentary has proven popular in regions of the non-Arab Muslim world, such as in the Indo- Pakistani region and Muslim Southeast Asia. 951/1544), which also includes lengthy quotations from the commentary by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. Egypt 1069/1659) and the gloss by Muhammad B. Brockelmann (1898) lists eighty-three of such works, with the most prominent being the multi-volume commentary by Shihab al-Din al-Khafaji (d. More than 130 commentaries on Tafsir al-Baydawi have been written in Arabic. The work enjoyed a solid reputation among Sunni theologians since its composition. 5.2 The First Hizb of al-Baydawi's Anwar al-Tanzil.Tafsir al-Baydawi is also based on al-Raghib al-Isfahani's Mufradat Alfaz al-Qur'an and his tafsir, as well as al-Tafsir al-Kabir (or Mafatih al-Ghayb) by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. Al-Kashshaf, which displays great learning, has Mu'tazilite views, some of which al-Baydawi has amended, and some omitted. This work is based on the earlier work of al-Zamakhshari's al-Kashshaf ("the unveiling"). The author then gives the name of his work, before launching into the explanation of al-Fatihah ("the opening"), the first chapter of the Qurʼan. The commentary begins with a short opening, in which the author praises the value of interpreting the verses of the Qurʼan and argues that Qurʼanic exegesis is at the head of all sciences. The work became one of the standard tafsirs in the Muslim world, receiving many supercommentaries and commonly being studied in madrasa courses on Qur'anic interpretation, and was one of the first Qur'an commentaries published in Europe (1846 – 48). According to the contemporary Islamic scholar Gibril Fouad Haddad, the work “became and remained for seven centuries the most studied of all tafsirs,” and it is to be regarded as “the most important commentary on the Qur'an in the history of Islam.” Thus, the work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and significant, because of its fame and influence, and many commentaries have been written on Baydawi's work. Tafsir al-Baydawi is considered to contain the most concise analysis of the Qur'anic use of Arabic grammar and style to date and was hailed early on by Muslims as a foremost demonstration of the Qur'an’s essential and structural inimitability ( i'jaz ma'nawi wa-lughawi) in Sunni literature. Tafsir al-Baydawi in Arabic with commentary and notes by Shaykh 'Abd al-Karim al-Kurai ( Arabic: عبد الكريم الكُورائي).Īnwar al-Tanzil wa-Asrar al-Ta'wil ( Arabic: أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل, lit.'The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation'), better known as Tafsir al-Baydawi ( Arabic: تفسير البيضاوي), is one of the most popular classical Sunni Qur'anic interpretational works ( tafsir) composed by the 13th-century Muslim scholar al-Baydawi (d.1319), flourished especially among non-Arab Muslim regions.