Timeline By The Institute of Ismaili Studies
From about the third/ninth century, Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir al-Qur’an) has constituted an important sub-discipline of a larger scholarly discipline known as ‘ulum al-Qur’an (literally, the sciences of the Qur’an). This scholarly discipline has been responsible for a literary output that has continued into the modern day. Tafsir works have been principally composed in Arabic, but they also have been written, and continue to be written, in many of the languages of the communities where Muslims have lived: Persian, Urdu, Turkish, Swahili and Malay among others.
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