Al-baḥar al-muḥīṭ fī tafsīr al-qurʾān (The encompassing Ocean in the Exegesis of the Qurʾān) Ibn Ḥayān al-Gharanṭī al-Andulusī (d. 745/1353) edited by various scholars as published in 20 volumes by Dār al-risāla al-ʿālamiyya, Damascus, 2015 Online at: www.resalahonline.com Please support quality scholarship by buying the actual physical copy of this book if you are benefiting from it. This edition is the result of high quality scholarship.About The Book "Al-Baḥr Al-Muḥīṭ" was composed toward the end of his life.  The voluminous book's composition was aided by Al Mansur. The work is extraordinarily rich in non-canonical Qira'at or variant readings of the Qur'an, some of which were not contained in any prior commentaries. About The Author Muḥammad b. Yusūf b. ʿĀlī al-Ṭabrī al-Nimrī Al-Andalusī better known as Abū Ḥayyān Al Gharnāṭī was a Muslim commentator on the  Noble Quran.He was born in Granada/Andulusia in  654/1256 was considered tall, and he kept his hair long . In old age, his beard and hair turned grey but he was generally described with handsome features.At a young age, He left Andalusia  and traveled extensively for the sake of acquiring knowledge. Within Andalusia, he traveled to Malaga , Almeria before moving on through Ceuta , Tunis, Alexandria , Cairo, Damietta, Minya, Kush and ‘Aydhab in Africa. Eventually, he reached Mecca for the sake of the Muslim pilgrimage and visited Medina before returning to Alexandria.Ibn Ḥayyān memorized the entirety of the famous Kitab of Sibawayh by heart; it was the first treatise ever written on Arabic grammar, and Ibn Ḥayyān held it as much an authority within the Arabic language as are Hadith, or the recorded statements of theprophet Muḥammad, in Islamic law.Ibn Ḥayyān was known for his preference for the Zahirite school of jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. He was also known as a critic of Sufism, especially of Sufi metaphysics of Ibn ʿArabī, Ḥallāj, Ibn al-Fāriḍ, Ibn Sabʿīn and Shushtari, all of whom Ibn Ḥayyān regarded as deviants.He died on a Saturday in 745/1344 in his home in Cairo, just after the last evening prayer. He was buried the next day in the cemetery of Ban al-Nasr in Cairo. When news of his death reached Damascus, the general public mourned his death due to his renown.The total number of works attributed to Ibn Ḥayyān Al-Andalusī as 65, though today only 15 of those survive.