Abstract:

Ahmed Amin (d. 1954) is one of the important figures of 20th century modern Arab thought. He has produced works in many fields, including philosophy, history of culture and civilization, newspaper and magazine articles, review, compilation and proofreading, translations, joint studies, and schoolbooks. Ahmed Amin's most important works are Fajr al-Islam, Duha al-Islam and Dhuhr al-Islam, which are a continuation of each other, about the history of Islamic thought. In these works, the author covers the development of Islamic sciences, tafsīr, hadith, kalam, fiqh and mysticism, language and literature, syntax, grammar, rhetoric, philosophy and ethics, history and geography, together with the history of thought, culture and civilization; and he was concerned with the formation and development processes of all these sciences. In these three works, the author gave encyclopaedic information about the formation and development processes of Islamic sciences, along with the four-hundred-year history of culture and civilization, starting from the age of ignorance and ending with the first period of the Abbasids. Despite its high recognition, it cannot be said that much work has been done on these works, especially on the sections related to Islamic sciences. In this study, we will try to present and criticize the author's views on the formation process of the science of tafsīr and tafsīr activities within the framework of the works called Fajr al-Islam and Duha al-Islam.

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