The purpose of this study is to examine al-Zamakhshari Intents-Based (Maqasidi) Interpretation in Al-Kashaf. This is to reveal his method of explaining the Qur’anic objectives and the most important features of the Intents-Based (Maqasidi) approach in his Tafsir
Although the Intents-Based (Maqasidi) Interpretation is one of the modern methods by which the contemporary commentators are concerned, this approach appeared to be present in its content in Tafsir Al-Kashaf, even though Al-Zamakhshari did not use it as a term according to the tradition of the later scholars. Al-Zamakhshari revealed the Qur’anic objectives by various means, the most important of which is rhetoric.