By Walid Saleh
The historical past of the Islamic interplay with the Scriptures of Judaism and Christianity has been studied greatly in academia. the present view is that Muslims had hardly ever any non secular appreciation to the Bible and while utilized by Muslims it used to be in general in apologetic or polemical settings. The record offered the following squarely contradicts any such view. The treatise argues for the permissibility of utilizing the Bible by means of Muslims for non secular reasons. Al-Biq, the writer of this treatise, wrote an immense Quran statement that used the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels to interpret components of the Quran. Al-Sakh-w, a sour enemy, hostile the sort of perform. The rfile preserves for us a basic argument inside of Islam in regards to the price of the Scriptures of alternative religions.
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Al-Biqā ī makes every effort to assist the reader to find his way through the marginalia and additions, stating at the end of a margin in the folio proper that the continuation is to be found in the insertion and then starting with the first three words from the insertion, to make sure the reader knows which insertion to look at. Nevertheless, the manuscript as it stands now is such that it is impossible to reorganize into the form intended by al-Biqā ī without external guidance, which this document cannot supply on its own.
On this author see Brockelmann, S II: 88. 5/9/2008 1:26:46 PM the manuscripts of AL-AQWĀL and the plan of the edition 45 ms. árabe 1539, were the property of the same owner, for both have a laudatory phrase in the same handwriting, and are very similar in phraseology—which I am, however, unable to decipher fully. I am not even sure this is an ex libris note. It is in maghribi script, which means that the manuscripts were at some time either in the kingdom of Granada or in North Africa. It is actually rather peculiar that two versions of the same work were acquired by the same owner.
63 Al-Biqā ī throughout his history, I hār, documents where in the Qur ān he was lecturing in his mī ād, in his musawwadah, and the ta rīr (or the clean copy). See I hār, fol. 211a. The first documented mention that I could find of his working on the clean copy is on fol. 241a. Al-Biqā ī was interpreting Q. 26:10 in his weekly lecturing, working on Q. 33:27 for his first composition, or rough draft of the commentary, and was working on Q. “ﻧﻚ ﻋﻦ اﻟﺸﻬﺮ اﻟﺤﺮام Al-Biqā ī, Na m, v. 22:443. 65 Fearful that his reader would fail to appreciate the time it had taken to write this work, al-Biqā ī totals up the years spent in production of this commentary: twenty-two.