Reading Surat al-An'am with Muhummad Rashid Rida and Sayyid Qutb by Nicolai Sinai
This essay is in the anthology Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. It's a fascinating essay that covers topics related to whether or not this surah was revealed all at once (jumlatan wahidatan). Traditionally, this is seen as a Meccan surah, but Sinai explores how some scholars debated whether Medinan verses had made their way into the surah. Additionally, the article provides an overview of how these scholars interpreted the verse.
Sinai makes an interesting conclusion at the end: "Scholarship on modern tafsir ought to resist the temptation of being interested in its object primarily or even exclusively insofar as exegesis can serve as a forum for debating the fraught relationship between Islam and modernity" (Sinai 151).
I recommend this book. I wrote a longer review of this essay on my blog- https://cdhtrigger.blog/2026/06/28/a-review-of-nicolai-sinai-on-surah-6-rashid-rida-sayyid-qutb-and-modern-quranic-exegesis/