By foregrounding South Asian exegetical traditions, Bashir not only enriches our understanding of Qur’anic thought but also compels us to rethink the tafsir’s global history BOOK REVIEW MUHAMMAD YASEEN GADA The book investigates the common scholarly binary of “traditionalist” and “modernist” tafsir, arguing instead for continuities between pre-modern and modern Qur’anic thought. Kamran Bashir situates South Asian exegesis in local, colonial, and global contexts, challenging portrayals of modern interpretations as ruptures from the Islamic intellectual heritage. His attempt to explain “why Muslims interpreted the Qur’an as they did” (p.