مخالفات الإمام الرازي لأبي مسلم الأصفهاني في تفسير الجزء الأول من القرآن الكريم في التفسير الكبير

Abstract EN

This research particularly aimed at collecting and studying the twelve views of Imam Al-Fakhr Al-Razi (d.

606 AH) that differed from those of Abu Muslim Muhammad ibn Bahr Al-Asfahani (d.

322 AH) in the interpretation of the first part of the Noble Quran in the Grand Exegesis (The Keys of the Unseen) of Al-Fakhr Al-Razi.

Al-Mu'tazila’s approach, embraced by Al-Asfahani, was expressed by using the evidence of reason and harnessing all sciences and knowledge such as language, readings, rhetoric, and grammar to show the validity of their beliefs and the correctness of their ideas, as clearly shown in Al-Asfahani's method, the evidence he provided and the arguments he presented to confirm the correctness of their approach.

Despite our opposition to the Mu'tazila’s thought embraced by Al-Asfahani, scientific integrity compels us to say that his sayings and opinions, the evidence and arguments he mentioned to demonstrate their authenticity, and his discussions with scholars confirm that he was a linguist, grammarian, a rhetorician, a speaker, an exegete, and that most of the differences in opinions are benignant and acceptable.

However, some of them are totally unacceptable, such as his denial of the occurrence of abrogation in the Quran.