Abstract

The article examines the key features of the Qur’anic exegesis of Bashkir Sufi and scholar Tajj al-Din ibn Yalchighul (1767–1837) expressed in his interpretation on one-seventh part of the Qur’an in the Turkic language written in 1829 and published several times between 1859 and 1917. The author relates Tajj al-Din’s adherence to the historical-narrative and ethical-didactic interpretation of the sacred text to his biography and socio-cultural background. The main factor that influenced his formation as a Muslim scholar was his long-term education in the cultural centers of the Ottoman Empire – the cities of Istanbul and Diyarbekir. Analyzing the sources that Tajj al-Din used while working on his interpretation, the author discovers and ex-plains its connection with the 17th-century Ottoman tafsir “The Brides of the Qur’an”. For the reader to appreciate the technique of interpretation to the full, the author gives a Russian transla-tion of the interpretation of the three short surahs of the Qur’an in the last part of the article.

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