Forbidding the reading of the : clarifying the Mamluk era reception of Zamakhsharī's Qur'ān commentary.

The Qur'ān commentary of Zamakhsharī (d. 538/1144), his , gained wide acclaim shortly after being written, and was widely used in research and teaching throughout the Islamic world. This favourable reception was largely due to its new rhetorical insights on how ideas are articulated in the Qur'ān through specific linguistic constructions.