Ruqayya bint Muhammad ibn Salim Baqays
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Ruqayya bint Muhammad ibn Salim Baqays is a contemporary scholar and researcher in Quranic exegesis and sciences, known for her specialized study Istinbatat al-Shaykh Muhammad Rashid Rida fi Tafsirihi.
Academic Career and Research
Baqays pursued her higher education in Saudi Arabia at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, within the Department of the Quran and Its Sciences in the College of Usul al-Din (Fundamentals of Religion). Her doctoral research topic was registered on 5 Dhu al-Qiʿdah 1432 AH, and she completed the project during the academic year 1435–1436 AH under the academic supervision of Dr. Abd al-Rahman ibn Nasir al-Yusuf. She defended her dissertation on 21 Jumada al-Akhirah 1437 AH before a committee comprising Prof. Dr. Yusuf ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Shibl and Dr. Fahd ibn Mubarak al-Wahbi, and was awarded her doctorate with first class honors.
Her scholarship focuses on the principles and methodologies of Quranic deduction (istinbāṭ) and their application in modern exegesis. In her doctoral study, Istinbatat al-Shaykh Muhammad Rashid Rida fi Tafsirihi Jamʿan wa-Dirasah ("The Deductions of Shaykh Muhammad Rashid Rida in His Tafsir: A Compilation and Study"), she analyzed the theoretical framework of exegetical deduction, classifying its modes, textual indications, and methods through an examination of the interpretive inferences formulated by Muhammad Rashid Rida in his commentary on the Quran.
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This academic study in Quranic exegesis analyzes the interpretive inferences (istinbāṭāt) found in Tafsir al-Manar. Originally presented as a doctoral dissertation, the work aims to establish a methodological foundation for exegesis-based deduction, categorizing its various modes and textual significations across more than 200 individual inferences spanning from Surat al-Fatiha through verse 52 of Surat Yusuf.