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A partial MS identified as the tafsīr of the early Meccan scholar Ibn Jurayj (CE 699-768; lit., ‘son of George’) will soon be published. One of the earliest works of qurʾanic exegesis to survive if authentic ...
Like many upwardly mobile scholars of his generation, IJ was not Arab but, rather, of servile origin. His ancestor ‘Jurayj (George)’ was Meccan slave of Greek/Byz. origin owned by woman of Quraysh. Around AH130/CE747-44, he established a study circle (majlis) in Mecca ...
and gained fame as faqīh & qurʾan reciter. He is also particularly famous for his knowledge of traditions attributed to ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿAbbās, the cousin of the prophet Muḥammad. Ibn Jurayj once sought aid from the Abbasid court bringing a collection of traditions of Ibn ʿAbbās.
This MS Seems to be different from the notorious corpus of tafsīr traditions attributed to Ibn Jurayj < ʿAṭāʾ < Ibn ʿAbbās by Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣanʿānī discussed here:
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