R. Y. M. M. Curtis

This study examines Ismaʿil ibn ʿUmar ibn Kathir's (ca. 1300-1374) introduction to his exegesis of the Qur'an, Tafsir al-Qur'an al-ʿAzim. The analysis is predicated upon the importance of understanding a foreign, classical and culturally distant text approximate to the understan…