Taṭbīq is the act of bringing one thing into conformity with another — the act-noun of the muṭābaqa (correspondence) root.
Reader note. This entry uses taṭbīq in the neutral sense of bringing one thing into conformity with another. It does not cover the rhetorical figure of antithesis or the pejorative exegetical sense.
In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works
Tafsīr's counterfeit — conforming the text to an antecedent position
In the Muqaddima's direct polemical voice, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī uses taṭbīq pejoratively for the act of carrying an antecedently produced position onto the verses' purports so that tafsīr becomes taṭbīq and taṭbīq is called tafsīr. The pejorative charge lives in this authorial sense; the general definition keeps only the neutral root sense of bringing-into-conformity.
Source: al-Mīzān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān
Setting two accounts side by side
In the al-Māʾidah 5:27–32 scientific comparison, Ṭabāṭabāʾī uses the taṭbīq root neutrally for setting the Torah and Qurʾanic accounts side by side so that the reader may compare them and judge; this sense does not inherit the Muqaddima's pejorative hermeneutical charge.
Source: al-Mīzān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān
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