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al-Bayḍāwī

Anwār al-Tanzīl wa Asrār al-Taʾwīl — a concise, linguistically careful Sunni tafsir (d. 1286). An Ashʿarite reworking of al-Zamakhsharī's Kashshāf, for centuries the dominant teaching text in Sunni madrasas. No complete English translation exists.

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Chrestomathia Baidawiana

D. S. Margoliouth, Luzac & Co., London 1894

A scholarly selection: Bayḍāwī's commentary on Sūrat Āl ʿImrān (Q 3) with notes on text and translation. The only substantial English rendering of any portion of al-Bayḍāwī. Public domain (1894).

PD · archive.org

Anwār al-Tanzīl (Arabic)

Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, multiple volumes

The full Arabic text in critical editions. Borrow-only on archive.org.

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al-Bayḍāwī on altafsir.com

Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute

Verse-by-verse Arabic tafsir browser, alongside the other major Sunni mufassirūn.

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Why al-Bayḍāwī appears in the catalog

When catalog entries note that "classical Sunni tafsir reads this verse as…", Bayḍāwī is frequently the mediating witness — his tafsir is the one that actually got memorised in madāris across the Muslim world for seven centuries, which is a more honest guide to "mainstream classical Islam" than a selection of modern apologetic works. Quoting him is best done via the Arabic (linked above) or via paraphrase in scholarly secondary literature; the Margoliouth selection covers only Q 3 (Āl ʿImrān).