exegises

The theologians' lot was worse all the more. They were divided into myriads of sects; and each group clung to the verse that seemed to support its belief and tried to explain away what was apparently against it. The seed of sectarian…

what the theologians, the philosophers, the Sufis and the people of tradition say about the exegesis of the Quran? before the second century had proceeded very far, the Muslim society had broadly split in four groups: The theologians,…

Exegesis in those days was confined to the explanation of literary aspects of the verse, the background of its revelation and, occasionally interpretation of one verse with the help of the other. If the verse was about a historical event or…