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The Mamlūk period, especially the 7th-10th centuries (A.H), is considered to be one of the greatest periods of Islamic history in terms of the improvements of tafsīr, qirā’a and other Islamic sciences. Thus, because of the Mongol invasion of Baghdad and the Reconquista (Crusades) of Andalusia, many scholars like Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Qurṭubī (d. 671/1273), Abu Hayyān al-Andalusī (d. 745/1344), who wrote famous tafsir works, had to relocate to the Mamlūk States in this period. In addition, scholars like ʿIzz al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Salām (d. 660/1262), Ibn al-Munayyir al-Iskandarī (d. 682/1284), Taqī al-Dīn b. Taymiyya (d. 728/1284), Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī (d. 728/1328), Ibn al-Jazarī (d. 833/1429) and Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505), who authored valuable books in tafsīr, qirā’a, and other Islamic and Qurʾānic sciences, all resided in different cities of Mamlūk Sultanate. In this research, the effect of the differences in reading on the interpretation of the āyats in general, and the ways of evaluating these differences in the tafsīrs of two contemporary commentators, al-Ṣafadī and Abū Ḥayyān, were examined comparatively. This point is the original aspect of the article and its contribution to the literature. In this research, it is revealed that although they have different approaches in terms of the choice of readings, both commentators explain the differences in reciting in their tafsīr in connection with other Arabic sciences such as the science of naḥw.