Tafsir Safi Explained

Tafsir Safi (full name: al-Safi fi Tafsir Kalam Allah al-Wafi) is an exegesis of the Qur'an written by 17th century Shia scholar Mohsen Fayz Kashani.^[1] This commentary on the Qur'an mostly cites from the Twelve Imams and may be classified as a work on hadith.^[2] It belongs to an era when most tafsirs relied "heavily on polemical hadith tradition buttressed by the accumulated wealth of hagiography and the euphoria of power after a long history of frustration" imposed on the Shias.^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/fayd-i-kashani-SIM_8545?s.num=0&s.q=%22Fay%E1%B8%8D-i Achena, M. "Fayḍ-i Kās̲h̲ānī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Edited by: P. Bearman;, Th. Bianquis;, C.E. Bosworth;, E. van Donzel; and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2011. Brill Online. Augustana. 6 April 2011 Web.
2. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fayz-e-kasani H. Algar, "FAYŻ-E KĀŠĀNĪ, MOLLĀ MOḤSEN-MOḤAMMAD" in Encyclopaedia Iranica
3. The Qurʾan and its interpreters. 1 By Mahmoud Ayoub, p. 38