Tafsir as mystical experience: intimacy and ecstasy in Quran commentary : : the Tafsir Surat al-Baqara by Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad, the Bab (1819-1850) / / by Todd Lawson.
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,...
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Lawson, Todd, 1948- author. Tafsir as mystical experience: intimacy and ecstasy in Quran commentary : the Tafsir Surat al-Baqara by Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad, the Bab (1819-1850) / by Todd Lawson. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 1 online resource (210 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Texts and studies on the Qur'an ; volume 14 Includes bibliographical references and index. Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Stylistic Note -- Entering the House of Glory -- Walāya -- Tetrads -- Heptads -- Tajallī -- Qāʾim -- A Mysticism of the Covenant -- Back Matter -- Bibliography of Printed Works. 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 Mysticism Islam. Sufism. Babism. Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Baqarah Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850. Tafsīr Sūrat al-Baqarah. Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850. Tafsīr Sūrat al-Baqarah. English. 90-04-38415-4 Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān 14. |
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