Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936)

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al-Baiḍāwī
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, ʿAbdallāh b. ʿOmar, commentator on the Ḳorʾān, was a son of the chief justice of Fārs under the Atabeg Abū Bakr b. Saʿd(613— 658 = 1226—1260), was a judge in S̲h̲īrāz and finally settled in Tabrīz where he died according to Ṣafadī in 685 = 1282, according to Subkī in 691 = 1291 (see Suyūṭī, loc. cit.) but perhaps not till 216 (1316) (cf. Rieu, Suppl. to the Cat. of Arab MSS. in the British Museum p. 116). His chief work, the Anwar al-Tanzīl wa Asrār al-Taʾwīl, a commentary on the Ḳorʾān, based on the Kas̲h̲s̲h̲āf of Zamak̲h̲sharī but considerably amplified from other sources. “His comme…

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Brockelmann, C., “al-Baiḍāwī”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936), Edited by M. Th. Houtsma, T.W. Arnold, R. Basset, R. Hartmann. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-871X_ei1_SIM_1191>
First published online: 2012
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004082656, 1913-1936



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