Digital Edition & Research Platform

This site presents two interconnected resources in one: a digital edition and a research platform for Fī Riyāḍ Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-Karīmby Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (d. 1975), designed to make this tafsīr accessible, searchable, and analytically usable for academic research. It presents a substantial portion of the Arabic text of each lesson, capped at 50% of the transcribed source per the compiler's permission terms, alongside a growing English translation, with comparative passages from Tafsīr al-Jalālayn and Rūḥ al-Bayān.

Research tools include: full-text search; a footnotes and citations index of 1,994 footnotes compiled by Muḥammad ibn Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī al-Ibrāhīmī, browsable by scholar, genre, and lesson with inline ^[n] links in the text; a Ḥadīth index; a concordance of key theological and Sufi terms; text clipping with Chicago auto-citation; bookmarks; and a full annotation system — select any passage, assign a category (key passage, question, confirmed), add a note, flag for return, and export your working file with auto-generated citations. A verse concordance and scholar/source index are being held back while a companion article is under preparation for Islamic Africa (Brill). These tools are designed to support scholarly work going from text to meaning.

The Arabic text is based on the revised ten-volume compiled edition of Muḥammad ibn Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī al-Ibrāhīmī, with editorial corrections. This edition has been digitised, verified, and built by Amadu Kunateh as part of his doctoral research on Niasse's tafsīr.

The Print Bilingual Edition

The complete bilingual print edition (Arabic facing English) is currently under review for publication with an academic publisher. It differs from the Arabic compiled edition in its organisation: rather than following the ten-volume structure of the Arabic edition, the print bilingual edition is organised around the seven manzils, the daily recitation portions that Shaykh Ibrāhīm himself enumerated in verse and practised as a weekly cycle of Qurʾānic recitation.

This seven-volume structure, each volume corresponding to one manzil, reflects the Sheikh's own relationship to the Qurʾān and provides a framework for the translation that is rooted in his practice rather than in the conventions of the printed Arabic edition.

The Qurʾānic Text and Audio

The Qurʾānic text follows the Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ rasm, the orthographic standard of North and West Africa in which the tafsīr was delivered. Audio recordings of Shaykh Ibrāhīm's oral delivery are available for the Arabic tafsīr (currently Sūras 1–18, with further sessions forthcoming) and for the complete Wolof tafsīr (122 sessions, via the Internet Archive); see the Listen page.

Editorial Note

For a full account of editorial principles, digitisation methodology, footnote marker insertion, verse range verification, and version history, see theEditorial Notefor this edition.

Copyright

Arabic edition © Muḥammad ibn Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī al-Ibrāhīmī. English translation © Amadu Kunateh. All rights reserved. Scholarly quotation with full citation is permitted. Reproduction, redistribution, or commercial use without written permission is prohibited.

Team

Amadu Kunateh, Founder, Translator & Digital Editor. and builder of this scholarly platform. Kunateh conceived and developed this resource to make Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse's tafsīr accessible and searchable for scholarly research, building a digital scholarly edition and footnotes and citations for the text.

Ally Mahmoud, Web development review.
Dayyib Bashir Sheikh Dahir, Arabic textual verification and proofreading.
Kabir Aliyu Sheikh Dahir, Arabic textual verification and proofreading.