Abstract : In this paper we have modified some of our points of view concerning the beginnings of the Islamic exegesis of the Koran. These points of views had been expressed in a previous paper: Gilliot, "Les débuts de l'exégèse coranique", REMMM, 58/4 (1990), p. 82-100/translated: The beginnings of qur'anic exegesis ", in Rippin (ed.), The Qur'an. Formative interpretation, Aldershot, Ashgate. Variorum (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World", 25), 1999, 1-39.