Al-Fawz al-Kabir

Shah Waliyyullah Dehlwi
Paperback
9781842001349

The Great Victory on Qur'anic Hermeneutics

Al-Fawz al-Kabir fi Usul at-Tafsir: The Great Victory on Qur'anic Hermeneutics is a manual of the principles and subtleties of Qur'anic tafsir.

In it, the author outlines the five fundamental sciences that the Qur'an contains:
• the science of polemics;
• reminding others of the favours of Allah;
• the reminder of death and what is after it;
• and the science of rulings.

He also reviews the other sciences of tafsir such as:
• the circumstances of revelation (asbab an-nuzul),
• abrogating and abrogated ayat (an-nasikh wa'l-mansukh) and 
• the unusual words and phrases of the Qur'an (ghara'ib al-Qur'an),
• before concluding the book by looking at the extraordinary and miraculous aspects of the Noble Book, and
• a final chapter on the meanings of the letters of the Arabic alphabet.