EXEGESIS vii. In Bahaism The importance of Koranic exegesis (tafsīr) and interpretation (taʾwīl)—a somewhat arbitrary distinction—for the Bābī and Bahai…

EXEGESIS vi. In Aḵbārī and Post-Safavid Esoteric Shiʿism Aḵbārī exegesis of the Qurʾān, the style and content of which are…

EBN ABĪ JOMHŪR AḤSĀʾĪ, Moḥammad b. Zayn-al-Dīn Abi’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥosām-al-Dīn Ebrāhīm (b. ca. 837/1433-34; d. after 25 Ḏu ʾl-Qaʿda…

LAWḤ “tablet,” a term used distinctively in the Bahai writings as part of the title of individual compositions of Bahāʾ-Allāh…

HERMENEUTICS of pre-modern Islamic and Shiʿite exegesis, the principles and methods, or philosophy, of scriptural interpretation, as distinct from the…