ABSTRACT
In line with Sayyid Jamal al-Din, Muhammad Abduh and his followers wanted to spread so-called pan-Islamism across the world and prevent Muslims from deserting their faith. Tantawi Jawhari was one of these followers. He endeavoured to pursue the main precepts of tajdid and islah of the rationalist and modernist movements at the time when he was in close contact with the Nationalist party. Tantawi Jawhari agonised over the Muslims' backwardness and decline, and this was one of the main reasons he wrote his quranic exegesis. In it, he highlighted scientific matters for so-called benighted Muslims by addressing important points regarding the backwardness of the Muslim world as well as Western advances. In the West, knowledge, or the Aristotelian theory of knowledge, was defined through syllogism, which started from the first necessary principles grasped by pure reason or intuition.
