Ɵ Ali bin Muhammad al-Khazin, Tafsir Li'bab al-Ta'wil fi Ma'ani al-Tanzil, third volume only, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper ["Granada in the Andalus", dated Rabi I 890 AH (1485 AD)]single volume, 82 leaves, lacking first 9 leaves (replaced in twentieth century manuscript facsimile in a similar style), single column, 22 lines black maghribi script with headings and important words in red, some very slight darkening and finger soiling to the margins, a few small spots, else in very clean condition, 210 by 170 mm; twentieth-century leather over paste-boards, extremities slightly rubbedThis manuscript was copied in Granada in the region of Andalusia in the year 1485 AD. The 'Emirate of Granada', as it was known, was governed by Muhammad XIII of Granada (Abu Abd'ullah Muhammad az-Zaghall, 1444-1494) of the Nasrid Dynasty during this period and at the time of copying, this was last independent Muslim state in Western Europe. Granada then fell to the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of Christian Spain, in 1492, only 7 years after the copying of this manuscript. Al-Khazin (d. 741 AH / 1341 AD) was a Baghdadi theologian renowned for his scholarship of hadith and taqsir, who spent most of his life time between Baghdad where he was a Shaif'i jurist and Aleppo where he worked in a prominent school. The present text is one of his best known commentaries on the Qur'an and its meaning with regards to interpretations and uses of tanzil.
Ɵ Ali bin Muhammad al-Khazin, Tafsir Li'bab al-Ta'wil fi Ma'ani al-Tanzil, third volume only, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper ["Granada in the Andalus", dated Rabi I 890 AH (1485 AD)]single volume, 82 leaves, lacking first 9 leaves (replaced in twentieth century manuscript facsimile in a similar style), single column, 22 lines black maghribi script with headings and important words in red, some very slight darkening and finger soiling to the margins, a few small spots, else in very clean condition, 210 by 170 mm; twentieth-century leather over paste-boards, extremities slightly rubbedThis manuscript was copied in Granada in the region of Andalusia in the year 1485 AD. The 'Emirate of Granada', as it was known, was governed by Muhammad XIII of Granada (Abu Abd'ullah Muhammad az-Zaghall, 1444-1494) of the Nasrid Dynasty during this period and at the time of copying, this was last independent Muslim state in Western Europe. Granada then fell to the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of Christian Spain, in 1492, only 7 years after the copying of this manuscript. Al-Khazin (d. 741 AH / 1341 AD) was a Baghdadi theologian renowned for his scholarship of hadith and taqsir, who spent most of his life time between Baghdad where he was a Shaif'i jurist and Aleppo where he worked in a prominent school. The present text is one of his best known commentaries on the Qur'an and its meaning with regards to interpretations and uses of tanzil.
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