Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SAKARYA UNIVERSITESI ILAHIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF SAKARYA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF THEOLOGY, cilt.14, sa.25, ss.139-161, 2012 (ESCI, TRDizin)
Subject of this article is introducing Abd al-Samad al-Ghaznawi and his tafsir or commentary entitled "Tafsir al-Quran al-Azim" which he wrote in 487 AH. It is intended to determine al-Ghaznawis scholarly stature and his method of tafsir, thus ascertaining his contribution to science of exegesis, as well as to analyze his "Tafsir al-Quran al-Azim" in terms of tafsir methodology and to elicit its prominence in the history of tafsir. Thereafter, the content of Tafsir al-Quran al-Azim is examined. After providing general information about the work which has reached the present day as a manuscript, the sources of tafsir are determined and introduced. The influence on how the following works are researched and citings from "Tafsir al-Quran al-Azim" are evaluated. Thereafter, the contents of the book are outlined, unraveling its prominence in tafsir history. Thus the aim of the article is to determine al-Ghaznawis method of exegesis of the Quran and eventually his contribution to Islamic sciences in general and the science of tafsir specifically.