@article{article_1773648, title={The Historiography of Tafsı̄r in the Indian Subcontinent: A Study of Banjabīrī’s Ṭabaqāt al-Mufassirīn}, journal={Trabzon İlahiyat Dergisi}, volume={12}, pages={31–55}, year={2025}, DOI={10.33718/tid.1773648}, author={Şen, Ercan}, keywords={Tafsīr, Ṭabaqāt al-Mufassirīn, Indian Subcontinent, Banjabīrī, Nayl al-Sāʼirīn fī Ṭabaqāt al-Mufassirīn.}, abstract={The genre known as ‘ṭabaqāt’ in the classical period and ‘biography’ in the modern period is a common type of writing among Islamic scholars. In this type of writing, personalities who stand out for their scientific, political and social identities are brought together in a specific order and method, and information about them is presented. Ṭabaqāt books, the first examples of which began to appear in the second century AH, exhibits certain differences according to the scientific knowledge, intellectual identities and perspectives on historical events of their authors. In this sense, a rich literature has developed in Islamic historiography that clearly reflects this observation, bearing names such as ‘ṭabaqāt al-fuqahā’, ‘ṭabaqāt al-muḥaddithīn’, ‘ṭabaqāt al-mufassirīn’ and ‘ṭabaqāt al-qurrā’. Such works shed light on researchers in the process of identifying information about the life of the authors, as well as constituting the main sources of reference in revealing the name, content and important aspects of the works of the authors in question. In this context, one of the works of the ‘ṭabaqāt al-mufassirīn’ genre in the historiography of tafsīr is the work of Muhammad Tahir Banjabīrī (d. 1986), one of the scholars of the Indian subcontinent, entitled Nayl al-Sāʼirīn fī Ṭabaqāt al-Mufassirīn. In this article will present some assessments of Banjabīrī’s contribution to the history of exegesis in the Indian subcontinent, specifically in relation to the work in question. In addition, Banjabīrī’s contributions to the history of tafsīr in the modern period will be examined. In this study, which adopts the content analysis approach as a method, we will also focus on the question of whether the perspective presented by the author in the work in question constitutes an innovation for the tradition of tafsīr ṭabaqāt or whether it is a continuation of the classical ṭabaqāt tradition. As far as we have been able to determine, this study, which is the first study to examine Nayl al-Sāʼirīn fī Ṭabaqāt al-Mufassirīn as an independent work, aims to contribute to a greater emphasis on the Indian subcontinent in the context of tafsīr historiography studies.}, number={Özel Sayı}, publisher={Trabzon University}