ابن كثير، إسماعيل بن عمر

Ibn Kathīr =

 'Imād al-Dīn Abū'l-Fīḍā' Ismā'il ibn 'Urnar ibn Kathīr

(d. 774/1373).

IN PROGRESS, 2008-9

STEPHEN N. LAMBDEN

(UNIV. CALIFORNIA-MERCED)

 

Ibn Kathīr = 'Imād al-Dīn Abū 'l-fīḍā' Ismā'il ibn 'Urnar ibn Kathīr (d. 774/1373).

ابن كثير، إسماعيل بن عمر
  • Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr, 10 vols. Cairo: Matba'ah al-Miriyya,  1300/1882-3.
  •  تفسير القرآن العظيم
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim, 4 vols. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1356/1937.
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim, 4 vols. Cairo: Matba'ah Mustafa Muhammad, 1937/1356..
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim, 4 vols. Cairo: Matba'ah al-Tajariyya al-Kubra, 1937/1356.
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  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim + Fadā’il al-Qur’ān.  4 vols. Cairo: 1371/1952  (598+598+584+ 576+58 pp.).
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim, 7 (8) vols. Beirut: Dār al-Andalus, 1385/1966. 
  • Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-'azīm, ed. 'Abd al-'Azīz Ghunaym et al, 8 vols., Cairo 1390/1971
  • Tafsîr al-Qur’ân.  8 vols. Ed. Muhammad Ibrahim al-Bannā,  Muhammad A. ’Ashūr & ’Abd al-’Azîz Ghunaym. Cairo, n.d.  [1970?].
  • Tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-‘Azīm. 7 Vols. Beirut:  Dār al-Fīkr, 1389/1970.
  • Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-'azīm, ed. 'Abd al-'Azīz Ghunaym et al, 8 vols., Cairo 1390/1971  4 vols., Cairo n.d.; repr. Beirut 1980
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim, 7 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Fīkr. 1389/1970.* - Vol. 7 of this edition has as an appendix Ibn Kathir's Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān.
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim, ed. `Ali Muhammad al-Bijawi 2(?) vols. Cairo: Dār Ihya al-Kutub al-`Arabiyya,. 1398/1978.
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim 8 vols..ed. Muhammad Ibrahim Banna + Muhammad Ahmad Ashur + `Abd al-Aziz Ghanim, Istanbul:  Dār al-Qahraman lil-Nashruw al-Tawzbi`  [Nesreden Kahraman Yayinlaru], 1984.. *
  • Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-'azīm... Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1407/1987.
  • Tafsīr al-Qur'ān al-'azīm... Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1414/1994.
  • Tafsīr al-Qur`ān al-`azīm, ed. Maḥmūd `Abd al-Qādir al-Arnā’ūt, 5  vols. Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 1995.
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim 4 vols..ed. Beirut: Ma`assat al-Rayyan, 2nd ed. 1417/1996.
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azim 8 vols..ed. Jiddah+ Beirut: Sharikat Dar al-Qibla/ Dar Ibn Hazm.  1418/1998 (3914pp.).
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azīm, 1 vol. ed. Beirut : Dār Ibn Ḥazm, 1420 / 2000.*
  • Tafsīr al-qur'ān al-'azīm, ed. Riyād : Dār al-Salām, 1420/2000. (1536pp.)

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Kitāb Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān

  • Kitāb Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān.  ed. Abū  Ishāq al-Huwaynī al-Atharī.  Cairo:  Maktabat Ibn Taymīyah ; Jiddah : tawzī‘ Maktabat al-‘Ilm, 1416 /1995-6.

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English and other translations : should be used with caution as most are full of paraphrases, bad translation and omissions.

  • Tafsîr Ibn Kathîr Urdu. Karachi, 5 vols. c. 1952. Qur’ān text + translation and commentary in Urdu.

  • Tafsir of the Glorious Qur'ān by the Eminent Imam Abū 'l-fī ḍā' Ismā'il Ibn Kathīr al-Qurashi al-Dimashqi (734 AH/1373 CE). Vol. 12  Eng. trans. Abū  Yasmiyn `Abdul Jalil ibn Cary T. fī lson with emmendation by Mohammad A. El-Sheikh. [Baltimore, Maryland] USA: IARA [= Islamic African Relief Agency -USA].,2000. 

  • Tafseer Ibn Katheer, Juz' `Amma, Part 30 trans. Samah Strauch. Revised by Ibrahim M. Kunna and Abū  Aya Sulaiman `Abdus-SAbū r. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: IIPH [= International Islamic Publishing House] 1420/1999. (304pp.).

  • Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged), 10 vols. Abridged by a group of scholars under the supervision of Shaykh Safī yr Rahman al-Mubarakpuri,  Riyadh, Houston, New York, London: Darussalam, 2000.

  •  The Exegesis Of The Grand Holy Qur'an/ Tafsir Ibn Kathir. trans. Muhammad Mahdi al-Sharif. 4 vols. Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 2006. 3160pp.

  • L'Exégèse du Coran, Ibn Kathir [French trans.] ed. Abdu Harakat. Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 2006. 1602pp. ISBN 12-7451-3204-0.

  • Tafsīr maʻānī al-Qurʼān al-Karīm bi-al-lughah al-Injilīziyah : muqtabis min Tafsīr al-Tabarī wa-al-Qurṭubī wa-Ibn Kathīr maʻa Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Taqī-al-Dīn Hilālī; Muhammad Muhsin Khan; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia : Maktaba Dar-Us-Salam, 1993. 

al-Bidāya wa-l-nihāya ("The Genesis and the Culmination [of History]")

  • al-Bidāya wa'l-nihāya. ADD
  • al-Bidāya wa'l-nihāya, 14 vols., Beirut + Riyadh 1966; repr. Beirut 1988
  • al Bidāyah wa'l nihāyah. ed. Aḥmad Abū  Māḥim et. al. n.p.: Dār al kutub al ‘ilmiyyah, 1992/1412.
  • al-Bidāya wa'l-nihāya, 14 vols., Beirut/ Riyadh 1966; repr. Beirut 1988.
  • al-Bidāya wa'l-nihāya,  complete ed. in 2 vols.  Beirut: Dār Ibn Ḥazm,  1426/2005 (vol.1 = pp. 1-1748+20 [Index] vol.2 = pp.1349-2395+index pp.3398-3488):  ISBN = 9953-81-055-9.  *
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  • Fadā'il  = Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān, Beirut 1979
  • Faḍā'il al-Qur'ān, 4 vols., Cairo n.d.;  + repr. 4 vols. Beirut :  Dār al-Ihya al-Turath al-`Arabi 1980

Qiṣaṣ al anbiyā’ (Stories of the Prophets).

  • Qiṣaṣ al anbiyā’. Beirut:  ADD, 1402/1982.
  • Qiṣaṣ al anbiyā’. Beirut:  Dār al Qalam. 1405/1985. 
  • Qisas =  Qiṣaṣ al anbiyā’. Beirut:  Dār al Qalam. 1405/1985.  *
  • Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ  lil-Imām Abī al-Fidāʼ Ismāʻīl ibn Kathīr ; taḥqīq Muṣṭafá ʻAbd al-Wāḥid. [Saudi Arabia] : 1408/1988.
  • Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ lil-Imām Abī al-Fidāʼ Ismāʻīl ibn Kathīr ; taḥqīq wa murājaʻah nukhbah min al-ʻulamāʼ, bi-ishrāf al-nāshir. Published Beirut : Dār al-Qalam, 1991. 634pp.
  • Qiṣaṣ al‑`anbiyā’, ed. Yūsuf 'Alī  Bidīwī.  Damascus: 1992.
  • Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā' - lil-Imām `Imād al-Dīn Abī al-Fidā' Ismā`īl ibn Kathīr al-Qurashī al-Dimashqī ; i`dād wa taqdīm Muḥammad `Abd al-Raḥmān Mar`ashlī. 2 vols. in 1. Beirut : Dār Iḥyā' al-Turāth al-`Arabī, 1417/ ‬1997.‬
  • Qiṣaṣ al‑`anbiyā’, ed. Muhammad Ahmad `Abd al-Azīz.  Cairo: Dar al-Hadith, 1423/2002. (520pp.).
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  • Qiṣaṣ al anbiyā’. Ed. Ibrahim Ramadan, Beirut:  Dār al-Fikr al-`Arabi.  XXXX/2002. 454pp.  

  • English Trans. (often unreliable).

    • Stories of the Prophets by Imam Ibn Kathir... Translated by Mustafa Gemeiah Office of the Grand Imam Sheikh al-Azhar edited by  A.A. Mischler, Mansoura, Egypt: El-Nour, n.d. (c. 1998) (444pp.). *
    • Stories of the Prophets, Qisaasul Anbiya [sic.] Imam Abi al-Fidaa Isma'il bin Kathir (701-114 H) Revised by Ash Shaikh Khalil al-Mays trans. Duraid & Faiz Fatoohi. Delhi: Adam Publishers and Distributors,  rev. ed. 1999+2001 (419pp.). *

     

     

    Al-Sira Al-Nabawiyya.

     

    • The Life of the Prophet Muhammad: Al-Sira Al-Nabawiyya.: Abd Al-Wahid Mustafa,  Muneer Goolam Fareed, Trevor Le Gassick, Trevor Legassick. Ithaca Press, 1999.  ISBN-10: 1873938292 ISBN-13: 9781873938294
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    جامع المسانيد السنن   

     

    •  Jāmi' al-Masānid wa'l-Sunan, 37 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi, 23,672pp. ISBN: 2-74510-658-9 ISBN13 A massive Hadith compilation from the ten major "books of Hadith arranged according to the names of the Prophet's companions who reported them."

     

    Select Modern Books and articles

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    Redzic,  Muaz

    • The commentary on the Qurʼan : an analysis of the meanings and a correlation between the terms "Israelites" and "Jews" in the Tafsirs of Ibn Kathīr, Sayyid Qutb and Imam Qushayrī . ©2006. Dissertation: Thesis (M.A. in Religion) -- Vanderbilt University, 2006.

    Williams, Rebecca R.

    • An analysis of the supernatural archetype of the Prophet Muḥammad as found in the Sīra/Ta'rīkh and Tafsīr works of al-Ṭabarī and Ibn Kathīr. Ph.D Thesis. c. 2006.
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