The spirit and the letter : approaches to the esoteric interpretation of the Qurʼan / edited by Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Keeler, Annabel, author, editor.

Rizvi, Sajjad H. (Sajjad Hayder), author, editor.

Contributor:

Institute of Ismaili Studies, issuing body.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies (University of Cambridge)

Conference Name:

ESF Exploratory Workshop on the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qur'an (2006 : Cambridge, England)

Series:

Qur'anic studies series ; 15.

Qur'anic studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Qurʼan.

Qurʼan--Commentaries--History and criticism--Congresses.

Qurʼan--Hermeneutics--Congresses.

Hermeneutics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 538 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction / Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi

The countless faces of understanding : on Istinbāṭ, mystical listening and Sufi exegesis / Sara Sviri

The interpretation of Arabic letters in early Sufism : Sulamī's Sharḥ maʻānī al-ḥurūf / Gerhard Böwering

Towards a prophetology of love : the figure of Jacob in Sufi commentaries on Sūrat Yūsuf / Annabel Keeler

Making it plain : Sufi commentaries in English in the twentieth century / Kristin Zahra Sands

Outlines of early Ismaili-Fatimid Qurʼan exegesis / Meir M. Bar-Asher

Ibn Sīnā's Qurʼanic hermeneutics / Peter Heath

Qushayrī's exegetical encounter with the Miʻrāj / Martin Nguyen

Shahrastānī's Mafātīḥ al-asrār : a medieval Ismaili system of hermeneutics / Toby Mayer

Qūnawī's scriptural hermeneutics / Richard Todd

Eschatology and hermeneutics in Kāshānī's Taʼwīlāt al-Qurʼān / Pierre Lory

Simnānī and hermeneutics / Paul Ballanfat

Speech, book and healing knowledge : the Qurʼanic hermeneutics of Mullā Ṣadrā / Janis Esots

Aspects of mystical hermeneutics and the theory of the oneness of Being (wahdat al-wujūd) in the work of ʻAbd al-Ghānī al-Nābulisī (d. 1143/1731) / Bakri Aladdin

The Sufi hermeneutics of Ibn ʻAjība (d. 1224/1809) : a study of some eschatological verses of the Qurʼan / Mahmut Ay

Beyond the letter : explanation (tafsīr) versus adaptation (taṭbīq) in Ṭabaṭabāīʼs al-Mīzān / Amin Ehteshami and Sajjad Rizvi.

Notes:

"This book had its beginnings in an ESF Exploratory Workshop on the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qur'an that was held at the University of Cambridge in the summer of 2006. The workshop was held under the auspices of the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies of Cambridge University ... Some of the participants decided not to contribute their papers to the publication ... and quite a number of new contributors came on board. In addition, permission was obtained to republish a valuable study of early Islamic exegesis, which added to the balance and scope of the volume."--Page xxi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-509) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780198783336

0198783337

OCLC:

960850171