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General Editor’s 
Introduction 
and 
Foreword 
Introduction to 
Tafs
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r al-Jal
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The fifteenth-century Qur’anic commentary or 
Tafs
ī
r of ‘the two Jal
ā
ls’ (
al-Jal
ā
layn) — the Egyptian 
Shafi‘i-madhhab scholar Jal
ā
l al-D
ī
n Mu
ḥ
ammad b. A
ḥ
mad al-Ma
ḥ
all
ī
(d. 864 AH / 1459 CE), and his (also 
Egyptian) student the famous 
‘
ā
lim and polymath, Jal
ā
l al-D
ī
n 'Abd al-Ra
ḥ
m
ā
n b. Ab
ī
Bakr al-Suy
ūṭī
(d. 911 
AH / 1505 CE) — is one of the most popular 
Tafs
ī
rs in the Islamic world, perhaps even the most popular 
Tafs
ī
r. Copies of it are available in almost every bookshop and library in the Arab and Islamic world, in 
dozens of different editions, and it sits, well-loved and respected, in countless homes, schools and mosques 
all over the world. Moreover, of the great Sunni Orthodox Classical 
Tafs
ī
rs — what might be called the 
‘unofficial Sunni Canon’ of 
Tafs
ī
r — namely, the Tafs
ī
rs of 
Ṭ
abar
ī
, R
ā
z
ī
, Qur
ṭ
ub
ī
, Bay
ḍā
w
ī
, Ibn Kath
ī
r and 
Jal
ā
layn, it is by far the shortest and easiest to read and understand. Consequently, it is invariably read as 
an introduction to Classical 
Tafs
ī
rs — or even to Tafs
ī
r as such — such that for millions of students and 
adults who never go further into the subject, it is the only 
Tafs
ī
r they ever come to know extensively. Finally, 
because it is so accessible and ubiquitous, and because in Arabic it is always printed in a single volume, in 
the margins of the Qur’an itself (where it fits quite easily and legibly), it is habitually used as an instant 
reference work for words in the Qur’an whose meaning is not immediately clear to the modern reader, and 
this arguably is its real forte. It is thus an immensely successful and influential work not just as the classic 
introduction to 
Tafs
ī
r, but also as the standard reference work for the language of the Qur’an.