Fahd bin Ibrahim al-Dali
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Fahd bin Ibrahim al-Dali is a contemporary Saudi scholar and researcher specializing in Quranic sciences and exegesis. He is best known for his specialized study Zawa'id Ibn al-Jawzi 'ala Muqatil fi al-Wujuh wa al-Nazair (The Additions of Ibn al-Jawzi over Muqatil in Quranic Polysemy and Parallelisms).
Scholarly Contributions
Al-Dali's research focuses on the field of al-wujuh wa-l-naza'ir, a branch of Quranic sciences investigating polysemous vocabulary where identical lexical items carry distinct contextual meanings across different Quranic passages. In Zawa'id Ibn al-Jawzi 'ala Muqatil fi al-Wujuh wa al-Nazair, he undertook an analytical and applied study examining the additions made by Ibn al-Jawzi in his treatise Nuzhat al-A'yun al-Nawazir over the foundational compilation of Muqatil ibn Sulayman. While Muqatil's 177 terms had been analyzed in earlier academic scholarship by Sulayman al-Qar'awi, al-Dali focused on the remaining 154 supplementary terms compiled by Ibn al-Jawzi.
Al-Dali's methodology involved tracing each contextual meaning back to early exegetical authorities (al-salaf), evaluating linguistic roots and Quranic context, and reconciling differing interpretive traditions. He also critiqued figurative reinterpretations (ta'wil) of divine attributes found in earlier works, assessing them according to the creed of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a. In his findings, he highlighted the necessity for researchers in thematic exegesis to consider Quranic variant readings (qira'at) and called for a comprehensive re-editing of classical polysemy texts.
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This scholarly study in Quranic sciences investigates the field of al-wujuh wa-l-naza'ir, which examines Quranic vocabulary bearing multiple contextual meanings. The work focuses specifically on the 154 terms compiled by Ibn al-Jawzi in Nuzhat al-A'yun al-Nawazir fi Ilm al-Wujuh wa al-Nazair that were not present in the earlier compilation of Muqatil ibn Sulayman, analyzing each supplementary term through its exegetical attributions, linguistic derivations, and contextual interpretations.