Khulud Shakir Fuhayd al-Abdali
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Khulud Shakir Fuhayd al-Abdali is a contemporary Saudi scholar and researcher in Quranic exegesis and sciences, known for her academic study on the exegetical deductions of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Shawkani in his commentary Fath al-Qadir.
Academic career and research
Al-Abdali pursued her higher education in Saudi Arabia at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, studying in the Department of the Quran and Its Sciences within the College of Usul al-Din. Under the supervision of Associate Professor Yusuf ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Shibl, she completed her doctoral dissertation during the academic year 1434–1435 AH (2013–2014 CE).
Her research focuses on the methodology of textual deduction (istinbāṭ) in Islamic scriptural interpretation. In her doctoral work, Istinbatat al-Shawkani fi Tafsirihi Fath al-Qadir ("The Hermeneutical Inferences of al-Shawkani in His Exegesis Fath al-Qadir"), she examined how subtle textual and semantic indications are derived from the Quranic text, categorizing al-Shawkani's deductions across multiple fields, including exegesis, Quranic sciences, and creed.
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Istinbatat al-Shawkani fi Tafsirihi Fath al-Qadir is an academic study in Quranic exegesis that examines the hermeneutical inferences and subtle textual deductions made in the commentary Fath al-Qadir. It investigates the extraction of non-obvious meanings from Quranic verses through implicit linguistic and semantic indications, gathering and analyzing 219 distinct deductions across the entire exegetical work.