The term ‘commentary’ is usually understood as either exegesis or advocacy. Often this does not seem to do justice to the extant commentaries from the Islamic Middle Ages. Building on Shahab Ahmed’s interpretation of Islam, I put in place a theoretical framework for understanding commentaries. This framework requires us to take the graphical form of the text as our base unit, and from here I propose analytical definitions of ‘commentary’ and related terms. These are based on textual relations capturing different kinds of verbal agreement between two texts. I argue that verbal agreements are an important part of Islamic text-writing, to connect one’s own thought with that of the wider discourse. A commentary is, as I shall conclude, a text w...
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