Qur’an translation of the week #110: The Earliest Printed Tatar Commentaries- Mullah Nuʿmān al-Samānī’s Nuʿmani Tafsire
by Elmira Akhmetova The earliest printed Tatar commentaries of the Qur’an produced within the Russian Empire date back to the nineteenth century. In 1861, the first Tatar interpretation of the seventh part of the Qur’an, entitled Haftiyak Sharif (from the Persian haft, or ‘seven’) and authored by a prominent Tatar Muslim theologian and reformer, ʿAbd …