THE EDUCATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF NAJM AL-DIN KUBRA’S SUFI TAFSIR «TAʾWILAT AL-NAJMIYYA»

Abstract

This article examines the educational significance of 
the Sufi tafsir «Taʾwilat al-Najmiyya» by the outstanding thinker 
and scholar Najm al-Din Kubra (1145–1221), one of the most 
prominent representatives of Sufism in the 12th–13th centuries and 
a leading authority in the science of tafsir. In this work, unlike other 
Quranic commentaries, the author systematically enumerates the 
high moral virtues necessary for the spiritual perfection of the 
individual, deriving them from Quranic verses. The article reveals 
the distinctive features of this tafsir through illustrative examples.