Baydawi, al-

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البيضاوي

al-Bayḍāwī

Person

A thirteenth-century Shafi’i scholar of Shiraz, author of a widely-read short commentary on the Quran.

What it means

Nasir al-Din al-Baydawi wrote Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʾwīl, a concise commentary that draws on al-Zamakhshari and others. It has been studied and annotated for centuries.