Qur’anic Cross-References (Prof. Sirry)

this book shows already within the first 2 pages more than 30 cross-references:

Other books on cross-references:

Scholars have long maintained that scripture is its own interpreter and expositor. It has been widely accepted that the Qur’an explains itself and that the best approach to understanding its verses is to compare them internally. The twentieth century Indian scholar Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Farāhī (d. 1930) argues that the process of interpreting the Qur’an through the Qur’an is based on a simple principle: “The Qur’an mentions things in a variety of ways, sometimes brief and at other times in detail; what is left out in one place is mentioned in another (Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Farāhī, Rasā’il al-imām al-Farāhī fī ‘ulūm al-Qur’ān, ed. Badr al-Dīn al-Iṣlāḥī (Aza mghar: Al-Dā’irah al-Ḥamīdiyyah, 1991), 242). As a result, a specific genre of Qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr), known as “tafsīr al-Qur’ān bi’l-Qur’ān” (TQbQ), has emerged as an alternative approach to the Islamic scripture, which combines the more traditional atomistic (verse-by-verse) type of interpretation with thematic cross-references. It is no exaggeration to say that TQbQ is a manifesta tion of the cross-referentiality of the Qur’an.