MAHMUD IBN UMAR AL-ZAMAKHSHARI AND HIS CONTRIBUTION AS A KEY FIGURE IN ISLAM

Abstract

Al-Zamakhshari was a prolific scientist and wrote about fifty works on various fields of science. Twenty-five of them have survived to this day. Linguistics "Asas al-balagha" ("Fundamentals of Word Mastery", "Foundations of Eloquence"), "Al-Kashshaf" works in the Islamic world, which include his commentaries (tafsir) on the Holy Qur'an in 1134. The work "Al-Kashshaf" is recognized as the most perfect among the works related to Qur'anic interpretation by Orientalists and Arabic scholars. Therefore, this work is still used as a textbook in medicine in different countries of the world. The objective of this paper is to review previous studies dedicated to Mahmud al-Zamakhshari and his works, and to analyze the depth of his contributions.