Tafsir as mystical experience : intimacy and ecstasy in Quran commentary : the Tafsīr Sūrat al-Baqara by Sayyid ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, the Báb (1819-1850) / by Todd Lawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawson, Todd, 1948- author.

Series:

Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; v. 14.

Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Baqarah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Qurʼan.

Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850. Tafsīr Sūrat al-Baqarah.

Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī.

Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Baqarah.

Mysticism--Islam.

Mysticism.

Sufism.

Babism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 210 pages : Illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

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 tafsir in a quest for spiritual or mystical experience. In this earliest of the Bab'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 Fatima and the twelve Imams of Ithna-'ashari Shi'ism who inhabit the letters, words, verses and suras of the Book.

Contents:

Abbreviations

Introduction: entering the house of glory: exegesis as mystical intimacy with the divine

Walāya: Luminous love and intimacy

Tetrads: architecture of glory, I

Heptads: architecture of glory, II

Tajallī: divine glory manifested

Qāʼim: divine glory embodied

Epilogue: a mysticism of the covenant

Bibliography of printed works

Indexes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-196) and indexes.

Contains:

Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850. Tafsīr Sūrat al-Baqarah. English.

ISBN:

9789004384156

9004384154

OCLC:

1054266843