Ilyas Daud

Tafsīr as a Product of Social Class Struggle: A Study of Tafsīr Fī Ẓilāl al-Qur’ān

Qur’ānic exegesis (tafsīr) is often treated as a normatively theological product detached from its social context. Yet in modern historical reality, it frequently emerges from ideological conflict and struggles for power. In Egypt during the Nasser era, Fī Ẓilāl al-Qur’ān by Sayyid Quṭb was produced amid political repr...