The Qur'an Seminar Commentary
Mehdi Azaiez, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Tommaso Tesei & Hamza M. Zafer (eds.)
Twenty-five scholars read 50 passages of the Qur'an together and compare their interpretations. Each passage gets a set of commentaries, which makes this a rare window into how Qur'anic scholars actually work.
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