Abu l-Futuh al-Razi

Abū al-Futūḥ al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khuzāʿī al-Rāzī al-Nīsābūrī , commonly known as Abū al-Futūḥ al-Rāzī or Abū al-Futūḥ Jamāl al-Din al-Rāzī al-Nīsābūrī , also known as Khaza'i Nishaburi (fl. 6th A.H./12th century), was a Twelver Shiʿite Muslim theologian and author. He came from a Khorasanian Arab family originally from Nishapur from the famous Khuza'a tribe, which settled in Nishapur after the Muslim conquest. According to Abu al-Futuh, his great-grandfather was Nafi' ibn Budayl ibn Warqa' al-Khuza'i, a companion of the prophet Muhammad. The book, consisting of twenty volumes, is the earliest surviving Persian tafsīr with an Imāmī Shīʿī emphasis. It delves into mystical themes regularly.