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| Author | Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba |
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| Original title | Al-Baḥr al-Madīd |
| Translators | Translated intoEnglish by Mohamed Fouad Aresmouk, and Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald |
| Language | Arabic,English |
| Subject | Tafsir,Sufism |
| Publisher | Fons Vitae |
Publication date | 2009 |
| Publication place | Morocco |
| Pages | 204 |
| ISBN | 9781891785283 |
Al-Bahr al-Madeed fi Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Majeed (Arabic:البحر المديد في تفسير القرآن المجيد,lit. 'The Vast Sea in the Interpretation of the Glorious Qur'an') or shortly namedal-Baḥr al-Madīd (English:The Immense Ocean), better known asTafsir Ibn 'Ajiba (Arabic:تفسير ابن عجيبة), is aSunniSufitafsir work, authored by theMaliki-Ash'ari scholarAhmad ibn 'Ajiba (d. 1224/1809), who was following theShadhili-Darqawi order.
It is the only traditional Qur'anic commentary which gives bothexoteric exegesis andmystical, spiritualesoteric allusion (ishara) for each verse of theQur'an, combines traditional exegesis withspiritual contemplation, exploring the outer and inner meanings of the sacred text.[1]
The reader will find commentary, both exoteric and esoteric, on most verses of the Qur'anic text, and will discover the depths at which Qur'anic discourse has been understood by the Sufis over the centuries and up to the author's era.[2]
Ibn Ajiba's tafsir was written in about five years.[3]
Ibn 'Ajiba relied on several earlier sources for his interpretation, as he himself mentioned at the end of his tafsir, including the following:[4]
As for hisHadith sources, they are the six major Hadith collections (al-Kutub al-Sittah) ofSunni Islam and their valuable commentaries.
Hislinguistic sources are:Al-Alfiyya, al-Kafiyya al-Shafiyya byIbn Malik, al-Tasheel byIbn Hisham; and the books of Qur'an meanings, such as Ma'ani al-Qur'an byal-Farra' andal-Zajjaj; and also the dictionaries/lexicons books, such asal-Sihah byal-Jawhari, andAsas al-Balagha byal-Zamakhshari.
Most of the Sufi sources of his tafsir are fromNorth Africa,al-Andalus, orEgypt. He quotes from scholars such asal-Junayd,al-Qushayri,al-Ghazali,al-Shadhili,al-Mursi,al-Sakandari,al-Darqawi, Muhammad al-Buzidi,al-Jili,al-Shushtari,al-Bistami,Zarruq andRuzbihan al-Baqli. Ibn 'Ajiba's quotations from Ruzbihan have hitherto gone unnoticed, because Ibn 'Ajiba referred to him as "al-Wartajbi" (Arabic:الورتجبي).[1][Note 1]
Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba was aShadhili-Darqawi shaykh who wrote over 30 IslamicSufi books. He was born in a village nearTetouan to asharifian family, who originated from anAndalusian mountain village called 'Ayn al-Rumman ("the Spring of Pomegranates"). He showed from an early age an aptitude for the religious sciences and became a traditional'alim. His orientation changed when he readal-Hikam al-Ata'iyya [ar] (the wisdoms or aphorisms ofIbn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari) with the commentary byIbn 'Abbad al-Rundi (d. 792 AH/1390 CE), who contributed to the spread of theShadhiliyya order in theMaghreb (northwest Africa).[6]
وإذن فهذا العمل الجليل المطبوع بطابع العمق في التحليل والنضج في العرض لم يكن وليد سنة أو سنتين وإنما كان وليد فترة من الزمن قاربت خمس سنوات، أنفقها المؤلف في رحلة بهية، ممتعة في أعطاف القرآن
تفسير القرآن "للورتجبي" وهو الشيخ روزبهان البقلي الشيرازي
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