Interpretation Center Issue No.: (104)
📖 Publication Title: The Book of Interpretation and Interpreters by Muhammad Hussein al-Dhahabi: A Critical Analytical Study
✍️ Written by: Dr. Noura bint Khalid Al-Arfaj
🔎 About the release:
This edition presents a critical analytical study of Muhammad Hussein al-Dhahabi's book, "Interpretation and Interpreters," a prominent reference work on the history of Quranic exegesis and the methodologies of Quranic commentators. The study is structured around the following themes:
• An introduction to the science of the methodologies of the interpreters, and to Al-Dhahabi’s book, its scientific status and its impact on subsequent studies.
• Analyzing Al-Dhahabi’s methodology and sources, and discussing his opinions and the issues of his book in light of the sources he relied on.
• Studying the topics of interpretation and exegesis, interpretation during the era of the Companions and the Successors, the sources of interpretation and its schools, and the differences among the interpreters.
• It addresses the trends in interpretation during the eras of codification, including interpretation based on tradition and opinion, symbolic, jurisprudential and scientific interpretation, leading up to the various forms of interpretation in the modern era.
• A statement of the book’s advantages and disadvantages, and an explanation of the problematic aspects of its issues.
📚 Technical details:
- Number of volumes: Two volumes.
- Number of pages: 1056 pages.
- Book size: 17 x 24 cm.
- Interior colors: two colors.
- Year of publication: 1448 AH – 2026 AD.