ترجمه زيدي قرآن به زبان طبري

A Zaydi Translation of the Koran in Tabari

One of the Tabari translations of the Koran is found in the MS no. 17982 kept at the Majlis library in Tehran. The manuscript consists of the second half of the holy book in 388 folios, each page consisting of the scripture surrounded by a comprehensive tafsir in Arabic. The later is clearly Zaydi, the Islamic denomination once practiced throughout Tabaristan. The Tabari translation,added interlineally as well as along the margins, is word-by-word, written by a reader in a crude but distinct hand, and sometimes amended by a second reader. The readers were probably students who would write down the words of their Tabari-speaking instructor. This paper studies the suras xcv to cxiv, that is the last twenty sums of the Koran.