Tabari's Qur'an Commentary, Comprehensive Exposition of the Interpretation of the Verses of the Qur'an, is one of the great monuments of classical Arabic and Islamic scholarship which, over a millennium, has been a fundamental reference work for scholars engaged in the tradition of Qur'anic exegesis. This two-volume translation focuses on thirty selected verses and Suras, or Chapters, associated with special merits and blessings and also includes Tabari's own introduction to the Comprehensive Exposition.

Volume I contains: Tabari's introduction; The Opening; the Throne Verse and the final three verses from The Cow (2:255 and 284-286)

The Family of Imran (3:7 and 18)

Repentance (9:38-40 and 128-129)

the story of Moses and al-Khadir from The Cave (18:60-82)

the Verse of Light from The Light (24:35-42)

Prostration; Ya' Sin.