ath-Thaʿlabī

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Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad an-Nīsābūrī aṯ-Ṯaʿlabī ( Arabic أبو إسحاق أحمد بن محمد النيسابوري الثعلبي, DMG Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad an-Nīsābūrī aṯ-Ṯaʿlabī † 1035 or 1036) was an Iranian Koran scholar and hadith collector.

Works

One of his most famous works is the Tafsīr under the short name Tafsīr al-Ṯaʿlabī . His ʿArāʾis al-maǧālis fī qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ contains Islamic narratives of prophets and men of God.

literature

  • Walid A. Saleh: The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition: The Quran Commentary of Al-Thalabi (d. 427/1035) . (Texts and Studies on the Qur'an). Brill, Leiden 2004, ISBN 9004127771 .
  • Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad aṯ-Ṯaʿlabī, Heribert Busse (ed.): Islamic stories from prophets and men of God: Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ or ʿArāʾis al-maǧālis . Translated and commented by Heribert Busse. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006 (= Discourses in Arabic Studies, Vol. 9). ( Online partial view )
  • William M. Brinner: ʿArāʾis al-maǧālis fī qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ or 'Lives of the prophets' as recounted by Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Thaʿlabī . Translated and commented by William M. Brinner. Brill, Leiden 2002, ISBN 978-90-04-12589-6 .
  • Al-Thaʿlabī on Abraha and the expedition of the elephant [excerpt from ʿArāʾis]. In: Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi, Andrew Rippin (Eds.): Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature . Routledge, New York et al. 2012, pp. 64–72. ( Online excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Thaʿlabī, ath-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ṯaʿlabī, Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad aṯ-; Tha'labi, Abu Ishaq Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al Nishapuri al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian Koran scholar and hadith collector
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH 1035 or 1036