Al-Kashshaf : : Al-Zamakhshari's Mu'tazilite Exegesis of the Qur'an / / Kifayat Ullah.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Ullah, Kifayat,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 259 p.)

The book analyzes extensively al-Zamakhsharī’s tafsīr al Kashshāf within the framework of the Mu‘tazilites’ five principles: (usūl al-khamsa) of their theology. Andrew Lane in his book entitled “A Traditional Mu‘tazilite Qur’ān Commentary: The Kashshāf of Jār Allāh al-Zamakhsharī” states that al-Kas...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: Al-Zamakhsharī’ Life and Works
• Chapter 1. Al-Zamakhsharī’s Biography
• Chapter 2. Al-Kashshāf
• Chapter 3. Al-Zamakhsharī’s Methodology of Tafsīr
• Part II: The Five Principles
• Chapter 4. The Five Principles (al-uṣūl al-khamsa)
• Chapter 5. Second Principle: Justice (‘adl)
• Chapter 6. Third Principle: The Promise and the Threat (al-waʻd wa al-waʻīd)
• Chapter 7. Fourth Principle: The Intermediate Position between Belief and Unbelief (al-manzila bayna al-manzilatayn)
• Chapter 8. Fifth Principle: Enjoining what is Right and Forbidding what is Wrong (al-amr bi al-maʻrūf wa al-nahy ‘an al-munkar)
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Al-Zamakhsharī’s Scholarly Contribution
• Bibliography
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Qurʼān Citations