An examination of the book Sharh-e Nafsat al-Masdoor By Shahrokh Moosavian

In this article, Shahrokh Moosavian’s recent commentary on the Nafsat al-Masdoor by Shehab al-Din Mohammad Kharandazi Zeidari, has been compared with an earlier commentary prepared by the late Amir-Hoseyn Yazdgerdi and, by drawing on various examples, both the weak and strong points of the two commentaries have been critically examined. The conclusion from this comparison is that in Moosavian’s commentary not only have the ambiguities in the Nafsat al-Masdoor not been removed, but also, contrary to one’s expectation, numerous oversights have led to many unwarranted additions and omissions, as well as many mistakes in the text of the Nafsat al-Masdoor, and certain inaccuracies in Moosavian’s commentary.