Baidawi

ʿ Abdallah ibn ʿ Umar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿ Alī Abū ʾ l -Hair Nasir al - Din al - Baiḍāwī (* in the 13th century in al - Baida ', † 1290 in Shiraz ) was an Islamic legal scholar and commentator on the Qur'an Persian descent. He was born in a town called al - Baida ' in Fars province, north of the capital Shiraz. His date of birth is unknown but falls within the term of office of Atabegs Abu Bakr b. Sa ʿ d I. (1231-1260), his father served as the Chief Justice under the. He received his education in Baghdad. He practiced in Shiraz from the office of the Chief Justice " Qadi al - Quḍāt " and belonged to the school of law of the Shafi ʿ ites to. He had the reputation of great learning and worked, among others, legal, theological, historical and linguistic issues. The greatest effectiveness unfolded his interpretations of the Qur'an. Al- Baiḍāwī died in Shiraz. He was buried in a place called Jurundab. His date of death is unclear and is 1286-1293.

Works (selection)

Al- Baiḍāwī wrote his numerous works on various topics, mostly in Arabic.

• Minhadsch al - ʿ ilm al - wusul ila usul ( " method of science the basics " ) and al - ghaya al - quswa ( jurisprudence )
• Lubb al - ʿ ilm al Albab fī -i ʿ rab ( "Significant insights into the science of syntax ", Arabic grammar )
• Misbah al - Arwah ( " Light of souls" ) and Tawali ʿ al - ʿ al - anwar min matali anzar ( scholastic theology )
• Nizam al - tawarich ( "order of history ," a Persian-language chronicle of world history from the creation story until the year 1274)
• Anwar al - tanzil wa - al - ta ʾ asrar wil ( " The lights of revelation and the secrets of interpretation", commentary on the Koran ).

His most famous work al - Baidawis is his commentary on the Qur'an. This holds true to Al- Quran Zamachscharis comment kash al - ʿ sheep to haqa'iq at- tanzil, adjusted for the teachings of the Mu'tazilah, and based on other sources. He became the standard work in the Islamic world. 1846-48, the plant was one of the first commentaries on the Koran entitled Beidhawii Commentarius ex codd in Coranum. parisiensibus of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer published in Leipzig.