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Taes
ng
.

Korean for
Mah
y
na
.

 
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(Arab.). Explanatory commentary on the
Qur’
n
, generally a straightforward continuous comment on the text. At first, the term
ta’w
l
was synonymous with tafs
r, but came later to designate more allegorical interpretation, while tafs
r was concerned more with philological explanation.
One who pursued the study of tafs
r was known as a
mufassir
: among the most famous are
al-
abar
, the historian (d. 929/310);
al-Zama-khsh
r
(d. 1144/538);
al-Bai
w
(d. 1286/685); and in more modern times, the Egyptian scholar Mu
ammad
‘Abduh
(1849–1905), whose commentary was edited by his follower
Rash
d Ri