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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawson, Todd, 1948- author.

Series:

Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān 14.

Texts and studies on the Qur'an ; volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysticism--Islam.

Mysticism.

Sufism.

Babism.

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

Qurʼan.

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

Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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 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:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

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

ISBN:

90-04-38543-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004385436 DOI