A Short Comparison Between Khajeh Abd-Allah-i- Ansari's Tafsir and Meibodi's Kashf-al-Asrar

Khajeh Abd-Allah-i-Ansari's Tafsir(Interpretation) is his most valuable work the complete text of which is, so far, non-existent. Only parts of this text may be recovered byconsulting some references. Kashf-al-Asrar and uddah-al- Abrar of Meibodi, the great mystic and interpreter of the late fifth and early sixth centuries (A.H.) contains parts ofthis text. This article has a quick glance at this part of Meibodi's book, that is, all those passages directly quoted from Ansari's or those sections stated in such a way onemay ascertain them as Ansaris.This study reveals that Meibodi has brought only a modest part of Ansari's book in Kashf-al-Asrar and there he calls his source "Ansari's book on the interpretation of the Quoran", that is, Tafsir, a fact which suggests that Ansari's book must not have had a name different from Tafsir.