ANALYSIS OF THE ANDALUSIAN TAFSEER CULTURE IN TERMS OF INTERPRETATION METHODS AND APPROACHES: QURTUBI’S COMMENTARY AS A SAMPLE
ENDÜLÜS TEFSİR KÜLTÜRÜNÜN YORUMDA YÖNTEM VE YAKLAŞIMLAR AÇISINDAN ANALİZİ: KURTUBÎ TEFSİRİ ÖRNEĞİ

Author : Abdullah BAYRAM
Number of pages : 95-113

Abstract

Al-Qurtubi born in Qurtuba of Andalusia. His life of learning starts in Qurtuba and continues in Egypt where he immigrates to it, following the invasion of Qurtuba in 633/1236. Firstly our article deals with a very important figure of Andalusian exegetical school during the VII. İslamic century, al-Qurtubi and his most important work is al-Jâmi li-Ahkâm al-Qur’an. He has used the book as complementary methodology of al-tafseer bi’l-riwayah and al-tafseer bi’l-dirayah together. And examples are given from the book about how the Quran was interpreted with the aid of the Quran itself, of hadith the sayings of the Prophet’s Companions, and the sayings of tabiun. He also did not neglect to note the political, social and historical events of his time. Although al-Qurtubi belonged to the Maliki school of thought he never limited himself with Maliki law. He gave importance to the principle of maqâsid al-Sharîa and maslahah especially in ayât-al-ahkâm. al-Qurtubi’s philosophy of slâmîc law is an analytical study of Qurtubi’s concept of maslaha (business matter, important matter) in relation to his doctrine of maqâsid al-sharî’a with particular reference to the problem of adaptability / immutability of İslâmîc Legal theory to social change. The Andalusian Tafseer Culture appeared during the third century, developed in the fifth century, reach the peak by the commentaries of Ibn Atiyyah and al-Qurtubi. They showed general features Andalusian exegesis markedly. he makes use of weak (zayıf) hadiths as well as appocrifical (mevzû) traditions, we think that number of them is few. His approach to accepting traditions as authentic is not very critical but lenient. He more interested in the content than the process of transmission. He assembles hadiths for solvation of question raised by the verse which he interprets. All these data may provide to us important contributions in terms of interpretation methods and approaches. Al-Qurtubi travelled east and settled in Munya Abi al-Khusayb in upper Egypt, where he died in 671/1273.

Keywords

The Andalusian Tafseer Culture, Interpretation Methods and Approaches, Al-Qurtubi, al-Jâmi li-Ahkâm

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