Genre Analysis of the Javameh-al-Jameh of Tabarsi

Afterthe rise of Islam, interpretation found prominence as a new science. Each interpreter had a method based on his technical knowledge, beliefs, geography, historical situation and the audience one had in mind. Since no available category fits this genre, we should come up with a new methodology to categorize the interpretations. Interpretations have three characteristics of the genre: plurality, similarity and difference. Therefore, we can categorize them according to genre and then start analyzing them in different ways. In this paper we analyze the Javameh-al-Jameh interpretation to show the sub-genre of this interpretation. Tabarsi tried not to ignite religious disputes by campaigning for the Shiite ideology. He has a literary and grammatical approach. Also there is intertextual connections between this and other interpretations such as Kashshaf by Zamakhshari and Majma-al-Bayan by Tabarsi himself. This work falls under the genre of interpretation and the sub-genre of literary interpretation.