The rational sciences and their impact on the Imami interpretive production In the fourth and fifth centuries AH, “An analytical study”

Abstract

We find that the interpretation of the Quran among the common people preceded the interpretation of the Imamis, despite the fact that the Imami Imams lived among their companions. The reason for this is due to the political hardship that the Imams (peace be upon them) and their followers were subjected to. However, the dispute between the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates planted the seed for the emergence of the schools of scholarship surrounding Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him). After the Buyid dynasty (334 AH) seized control of the Abbasid dynasty, the scholarly movement of the Twelver Shiites began, and this work continued for a period of (100 years). Twelver Shiite works appeared in all sciences, and we specifically focus on interpretation, as it is our field of work.

Among the Twelver Shiite exegetical works from the fifth century AH are: "Takhlis al-Bayan" by al-Sharif al-Radi (406 AH), "Nafa'is al-Ta'wil" by al-Sharif al-Murtada (436 AH), and "al-Tibyan" by al-Tusi (460 AH). In addition, there are the interpretive opinions of Sheikh al-Mufid (413 AH) and al-Sharif al-Murtada (436 AH), which are scattered throughout their works. As for the interpretive output of rational sciences among the general Muslims, it includes (philosophy, logic, and theology), and these sciences [with the exception of theology, which arose among Islamic circles] were introduced into the Arabic language as a result of the translation that took place in the first Abbasid era in (154 AH) and after approximately, after it had depended on the transmitted sciences (the Qur’an, the Sunnah, and language) in understanding the Qur’anic texts.