Tafsir al-Kashani

by Abd al-Razaq al-Kashani, or Qashani (+1329) He was one of those people who spread the notion of wahdat al-wujud as was developed in "Ibn Arabi's school" and attributed to Ibn Arabi who never used the term. What many people believe is Ibn Arabi's thought is the product of Qashani's Avicennian (Ibn Sina) metaphysics mixed with some Ibn Arabi's ideas. In comparison to Ibn Arabi, Qashani is easy to read because he, unlike Ibn Arabi, made a deliberate effort for his ideas to be more accessible and systematic. "Among al-Kashanī’s numerous extant writings, one of the most frequently printed is his Qur’an commentary. However, despite the virtually uncontested ascription of the Tawilat al-Quran to al-Kashani, this text has been repeatedly printed by modern publishing houses under the name Tafsir al-Quran al-Karim and ascribed to Ibn Arabi himself; as one scholar has suggested, this strategy is probably at least in part a marketing ploy."