ABSTRACT
[203] *The present article is a modified version of the first chapter of our doctoral thesis: Aspects de l’imaginaire islamique commun dans le commentaire de Tabari, University of Paris-Ill, September 1987, pp. 21-48 with notes, pp. 521-534 [= Gilliot]. To this we have added, in particular, twenty-six names of masters of Abū Jaʿfar, and a complementary index. [Since has been published: CI. Gilliot, Exégèse, langue et théologie en islam. Le commentaire coranique de Tabari (m. 310/923), Paris, 1990, for his formation, pp. 19-37; Fr. Rosenthal (General Introduction and translation by), The History of al-Ṭabarī, I, Albany, 1989, pp. 5-134, for his life and works].
