ABSTRACT
Modern Muslim Qur’an commentary tradition in South Asia is very rich both in terms of size and creativity of written sources. Moreover, Muslim authors writing on the Qur’an in British India came from a variety of backgrounds, which included institutions such as Deoband and Aligarh and also activist movements working against the British Empire. This chapter provides readers with an introduction of a variety of Qur’an commentators and their works that come to our attention in the period after the Mutiny. Three authors are chosen for a closer study in this book: Sayyid Aḥmad Khān (d. 1898); Ashraf ʿAlī Thānawī (d. 1943); and Ḥamīd al-Dīn Farāhī (d. 1930).
