Reem Abd al-Fattah al-Buhayri

Reem Abd al-Fattah al-Buhayri is a contemporary researcher in Quranic studies and exegesis, specializing in the analysis and contextual harmonization of verbally similar Quranic verses (al-mutashabih al-lafzi) across major exegetical works Tawjih al-Mutashabih al-L…+1.

Scholarly Focus and Research

In her study, Tawjih al-Mutashabih al-Lafzi fi al-Quran al-Karim inda al-Mufassirin: Dirasa fi Tafsiri al-Razi wa al-Alusi ("Directing Verbally Similar Passages in the Noble Quran according to the Exegetes: A Study of the Exegeses of al-Razi and al-Alusi"), al-Buhayri examined the methods employed by Quranic commentators to account for subtle lexical and syntactic variations across related passages of the Quran Tawjih al-Mutashabih al-L…+1. Her research surveyed early literature dedicated to the genre by scholars such as al-Iskafi, al-Kirmani, and Ibn al-Zubayr al-Gharnati, contrasting dedicated monographs with general exegesis Tawjih al-Mutashabih al-L…+1.

Focusing on Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's Mafatih al-Ghayb, al-Buhayri analyzed approximately three hundred instances where al-Razi provided rhetorical and linguistic explanations for verbal similarities, assessing his sources, unique interpretive stances, and influence on later specialists in the field Tawjih al-Mutashabih al-L…+1. She similarly evaluated Shihab al-Din al-Alusi's commentary Ruh al-Ma'ani, highlighting his approach while noting areas where he left around one hundred and fifty similar passages unaddressed or relied on passive and anonymous attributions for differing interpretations Tawjih al-Mutashabih al-L…+1. Her work concluded with a systematic comparative analysis of both commentators, mapping their agreements, divergences, and unique contributions across individual particles, vocabulary choices, and sentence structures Tawjih al-Mutashabih al-L…+1.