EDUCATIONAL AND MORAL PRINCIPLES IN NAJM AL-DIN KUBRA’S TAʾWILAT AL-NAJMIYYA: AN ANALYSIS OF SUFI TAFSIR
Keywords:
Najm al-Din Kubra, Taʾwilat al-Najmiyya, Khidr (pbuh), Moses (pbuh), humility, Mount Sinai, ishari tafsir, tariqa.Abstract
This article examines the educational significance of the Sufi
tafsir «Taʾwilat al-Najmiyya» by the outstanding thinker and scholar Najm al
Din Kubra (1145–1221), one of the most prominent representatives of Sufism in
the 12th–13th centuries and a leading authority in the science of tafsir. In this
work, unlike other Quranic commentaries, the author systematically enumerates
the high moral virtues necessary for the spiritual perfection of the individual,
deriving them from Quranic verses. The article reveals the distinctive features
of this tafsir through illustrative examples.
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