This study examines how some of the most preeminent commentators of the Shi‘a exegetical tradition have interpreted Qur’an 9:28 to frame the relationship between shirk (associating others with God), impurity, and the ...

The aim of this paper is to examine the hermeneutical method of understanding the Qur’an with regard to the authorial intention and in the light of the possibility of new and different readings and understandings of the ...