Tafsir Safi

{{Short description|Commentary on the Quran and hadith by Shia scholar Mohsen Fayz Kashani}}

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| name = Tafsir Safi

| title_orig = الصافي في تفسير القرآن

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| author = Mohsen Fayz Kashani

| country = Iran

| language = Arabic

| subject = Qur'anic exegesis (Tafsir)

| genre = Islamic literature

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| release_date = 17th century

| media_type = Print

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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.[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. ] This commentary on the Qur'an mostly cites from the Twelve Imams and may be classified as a work on hadith.[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fayz-e-kasani H. Algar, "FAYŻ-E KĀŠĀNĪ, MOLLĀ MOḤSEN-MOḤAMMAD" in Encyclopaedia Iranica ] 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.The Qurʾan and its interpreters. 1 By Mahmoud Ayoub, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sIXpFtvp2JYC&q=Tafsir+Safi+Kashani&pg=PA38 p. 38]