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What is tafsir, and how did al-Tabari and Ibn Kathir read the Quran?

Al-Tabari reportedly offered his students a 30,000-page commentary on the Quran; they said no lifetime would be long enough, so he cut it to 3,000, and his work was thought lost in the West until the 19th century.

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