Al -Fawz al-kabir fi Usul at Tafsir – Shah Wali Allah ad Dihlawi / Tahir Mahmood Kiani

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 judgements (ahkam), reminding others of the Favours of Allah, the Days of Allah and the Life after Death, and giving particular attention to the science of polemics. 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.