Usul al-Tafsīr wa l-Tawīl

This book is an important part of Ayatollah Haydari’s Quranic discourses demonstrating his way of explaining Quranic teachings based on the approach of Tafsīr and esoteric commentary of the Quran. This book has been authored to study fundamentals and principles of the Tafsīr and esoteric commentary methods of Ayatollah Haydari.

The subjects compiled in this book are:

1. Studying the authority of Quran’s apparent verses.
2. Interpreting the Quran with the help of Quran
3. Subjective interpretation of Quran
4. Muhkamāt (clear verses) and Mutashābihāt (ambiguous verses)
5. Esoteric interpretation of the Quran
6. Epilogue: Quran’s immunity from distortion.