Rashid bin Hamud al-Thunayan
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Rashid bin Hamud al-Thunayan is a contemporary Saudi researcher in Quranic exegesis (tafsir) and Quranic sciences, known for his academic study assembling and analyzing the exegetical views of the Hanbali scholar Abu al-Wafa Ibn 'Aqil.
Education and Academic Research
His full name is Rashid bin Hamud bin Rashid al-Thunayan. He completed his higher education 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. He earned his master's degree there under the primary supervision of Badr bin Nasir al-Badr, an associate professor in the Department of the Quran, alongside co-supervisor Yusuf bin Muhammad al-Sa'id, an associate professor in the Department of Creed.
His major research project, Manhaj Ibn 'Aqil al-Hanbali wa-Aqwaluhu fi al-Tafsir Jam'an wa-Dirasah (The Methodology of Ibn 'Aqil al-Hanbali and His Statements in Exegesis: A Collection and Study), focused on recovering the dispersed tafsir heritage of Abu al-Wafa Ali ibn 'Aqil (431–513 AH). In this work, al-Thunayan collected, systematized, and analyzed Ibn 'Aqil's interpretations quoted across theological, legal, and broader scholarly literature, emphasizing Ibn 'Aqil's positions on legal verses of the Quran (ayat al-ahkam) and his standing within Hanbali exegetical scholarship.
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This specialized academic study on Quranic exegesis collects, organizes, and analyzes the dispersed exegetical statements of the Hanbali jurist and theologian Abu al-Wafa Ali ibn Aqil, deducing his methodology across the Quranic sciences from remarks scattered throughout his legal, theological, and general writings.