The Critical Publications of Abu Mansur al-Maturid's Tevilatul-Kuran

Abū Mansūr al-Mâturıdı (v. 333/944) is one of the sect-leaders of muslims in doxastic field. His important book Ta'vîlâtu'l-Qur'ân is considered the first dirāyet example in Qur'ān exegesis. Ta'vîlât-assumed not draw the considerable interest- its manuscripts in the several Ottoman libraries has showed that this tafseer aroused seriously interest in academese. The spesific books, academic dissertations, articles, antologies and symposiums on Ta'vîlâtu'l-Qur'ân are the obvious indicaters to the interest in the last decades about al-Māturıdı and his tafseer. The one of the pleasing developments in this context are the five edition-critics of Ta'vîlât. In this article, the meaning of “edition-critic” and its methodology are summarised firstly, then these five edition-critics are defined with several aspects, mentioning above-cited academic studies on Ta'vîlât. Consequently, the most succesful edition-critic between these five studies is one that prepared by Bekir Topaloğlu and his workmates is concluded and justificated with many examples.