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The Great Commentary

Tafsir al-Kabir · Mafatih al-Ghayb

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A Quran commentary swollen to the size of an encyclopedia, in which every verse becomes an occasion for philosophy: arguments and counter-arguments from theology, cosmology, and Avicennan metaphysics are marshaled, weighed, and often left in deliberate tension. Critics joked it contains everything except commentary; admirers answered that it contains everything.

Know that the methods of the theologians and the ways of the philosophers I have tested, and I did not find in them the profit I found in the Great Quran.

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