Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary : Tafsīr sūrat al-baqara by Sayyid ʿAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, the Báb (1819-1850) (Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān)

Lawson, Todd

Brill（2018/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 210 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004384156

Full Description

In Tafsir as Mystical Experience, Todd Lawson shows how the Quran may be engaged with for meaning and understanding, the usual goal of mystical exegesis, and also how it may be engaged with through tafsīr in a quest for spiritual or mystical experience. In this earliest of the Báb's extended works, written before his public claim to be the return of the hidden Imam, the act of reading is shown to be something akin to holy communion in which the sacred text is both entrance upon and destination of the mystic quest. The Quran here is a door to an "abode of glory" and an abiding spiritual encounter with the divine through the prophet, his daughter Fāṭima and the twelve Imams of Ithna-ʿasharī Shiʿism who inhabit the letters, words, verses and suras of the Book.

Cover calligraphy by Burhan Zahrai of Quran 53:11

Contents

Introduction: Entering the House of Glory

Chapter One: Walāya: Luminous Love and Intimacy

Chapter Two: Tetrads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, I

Chapter Three: Heptads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, II

Chapter Four: Tajallī: Divine Glory Manifested

Chapter Five: Qāʾim: Glory Embodied

Epilogue: A Mysticism of the Covenant

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Manuscripts

Bibliography of Printed Works

Index