Al-Baydawi

Baidawi (Arabic: ناصر الدين أبو الخير عبد الله بن عمر بن محمد البيضاوي‎, Nasīr al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr 'Abd Allāh ibn 'Umar al-Bayḍāwī), was an Persian Islamic scholar, born in Fars, where his father was chief judge, in the time of the Atabek ruler Abu Bakr ibn Sa'd (1226–60). He himself became a judge in Shiraz, and died in Tabriz about 1286. Many commentaries have been written on Baidawi's work. He was also the author of several theological treatises.[5]

Nasir al-Din al-Baydawi
TitleAl-Baydawi
Personal
Born
Beyza, Fars Province, Iran[1]
Died685 AH (1286 CE)[2]
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i[3]
CreedAshari[4]
Main interest(s)Tafsir
Notable work(s)The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation
Muslim leader

Lived in the period of the Salgurs. Iranian region was a sheltered place because the Salgurs got along with the Mongols in this period. For this reason, this region became a safe region preferred by scholars. He also benefited from the scholars who came here. Details about his life are available in his book titled al-Gayah al-Kusvâ.[6]

Works

al-Baydawi wrote on many subjects, including fiqh (jurisprudence), history, Arabic grammar, tafsir and theology.

His major work is the commentary on the Qur'an entitled The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation (Anwar al-Tanzil wa-Asrar al-Ta'wil)'. This work is largely a condensed and amended edition of al-Zamakhshari's (al-Kashshaf). That work, which displays great learning, is affected by Mu'tazilite views, which al-Baydawi has tried to amend, sometimes by refuting them and sometimes by omitting them.[7][8] In addition to drawing heavily from al-Kashshaf, al-Baydawi's tafsir also relied on the tafsirs of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi and al-Raghib al-Isfahani.[9] It has been edited by Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (2 vols., Leipzig, 1846-1848; indices ed. W. Fell, Leipzig, 1878). A selection with numerous notes was edited by D. S. Margoliouth as Chrestomathia Beidawiana (London, 1894).[5]

His historical work Nizam al-Tawarikh (The Ordering of Histories) was written in Persian, his native language.[1] It seems to be part of an effort to encourage Abaqa Khan, the pagan ruler of Iraq to legitimize Ilkhanate rule in Iraq by conversion to Islam.[10]

His theological/kalamic work "Tawali' al-Anwar min Matali' al-Anzar" is about the logic of kalam in the Islamic theological tradition.

His other works: al-Gayah al-Kusvâ, Minhac al-Usul ila Ilm al-Usul, Lub al-Albâb, Risala fî Ta'rifat al-Ulûm, Tuhfeh al-Abrâr, Havâs al-Quran.[11]

Notes
  1. "The Radiances of Revelation and the Mysteries of Exegesis". www.wdl.org. 13 January 1563.
  2. Gibb, H.A.R.; Kramers, J.H.; Levi-Provencal, E.; Schacht, J. (1986) [1st. pub. 1960]. Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition). Volume I (A-B). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 1129. ISBN 9004081143.
  3. Esposito, John L. (2004). The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. p. 39. ISBN 0195125592.
  4. Esposito, John L. (2004). The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. p. 39. ISBN 0195125592.
  5. Thatcher 1911.
  6. Aykaç , Mustafa, Nâsıruddin el-Beyzâvî ve Osmanlı Kelâm Geleneğindeki Yeri = Naser Addin al-Baidawi and His Place on Ottoman Theology Tradition, İslami Araştırmalar, 2016/27, vol. 3, p. 389
  7. Gibb, H.A.R.; Kramers, J.H.; Levi-Provencal, E.; Schacht, J. (1986) [1st. pub. 1960]. Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition). Volume I (A-B). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 1129. ISBN 9004081143.
  8. Thatcher 1911 cites cf. Th. Nöldeke's Geschichte des Qorans, Göttingen, 1860, p. 29
  9. Muhammad Husayn, al-Dhahabi (2000). التفسير والمفسرون. Cairo, Egypt: Maktabah Wahbah. pp. 1/212.
  10. Peacock 2007.
  11. Aykaç , Mustafa, Nâsıruddin el-Beyzâvî ve Osmanlı Kelâm Geleneğindeki Yeri = Naser Addin al-Baidawi and His Place on Ottoman Theology Tradition, İslami Araştırmalar, 2016/27, vol. 3, p. 390
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References
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Baiḍāwī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 214. This in turn cites:
    • C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp. 416–418.
  • Peacock, A. C. S. (2007). Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Balʿamī's Tārīkhnāma. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-40025-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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