ابومسلم محمدبن بحر اصفهاني نخستين مفسر بزرگ اصفهان

Abu Moslem Mohammad-ibn Bahr Isfahani: The First Great Koran Interpretor of Isfahan

This paper attempts to introduce one of the scholars of Isfahan--Abu Moslem Mohammad Ibn Bahr Isfahani--whose name and ideas have been mentioned in the famous and important Shiite and Sunnite commentaries. However, even after eleven centuries, there is yet not enough information available concerning his life, professors and pupils. Even those who are involved in commentaries have no more information about him rather than his name. He was a writer, poet, and a great scholar in commentary on the Koran and the Arabic literature as well as philology. Among the Islamic commentators, he was the only one who did not accept the abrogation in the Koranic verses.