Al-Jubba i (d. 303/915) is commonly held to be the greatest of the Mu tazilite exegetes. His present reputation in this regard is due in large part to the fact that he was not merely the founder of what proved to be the predominant school of the Mu tazila in Sunni Islam, but also because he was known to have written a full tafsir, and this at a time when exegesis in the form of comprehensive commentaries was reaching its first maturity. Gimaret's partial "reconstitution" of al-Jubba i's work is based chiefly on citations found in several later commentaries, viz., the Tibyan fi ...
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