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.