The Qur’an Commentary of al-Bayḍāwī: A History of Anwār al-tanzīl.E-…

In his universal history of Qur’an commentary, Muḥammad Fāḍil Ibn ʿĀshūr (d. 1970), the Grand Mufti of Tunisia for most of the twentieth century, states that he considers al-Bayḍāwī’s (d. 719/1319) Anwār al-tanzīl to be the crowning achievement of the Islamic commentary tradition on the Qur’an.2 He also notes that the Anwār became the standard tafsīr used in teaching t…