Reinterpretation of " Al-Ḥamdu lillāhi Rabb al-ʿĀlamīn" On the Basis of Intertextual relations of Quran and the Bible

“Al-Ḥamdu lillāhi Rabb al-ʿĀlamīn,” (Quran 1: 2), is one of those Quranic verses that almost nobody in Islamic World has been hesitated in its prevalent meaning, especially in late Islamic centuries. We can say that approximately all Muslims have been supposing that its meaning would have been from the very time of the prophet Muhammad: “All the praises and thanks be to Allah who is the Lord of the worlds.” This study examines the formation process of this understanding and aims to explain this verse to be an Arabic equivalent for an old passage in the New Testament (1 timothy 1: 17) or even a statement in old Jewish literature (the book of Tobbit 8: 5); as well as some Muslim scholars at the 1st century A.H. mentioned. It seems that we can understand it better in the light of its intertextual relatioships and present a more precise interpretaion ot it.