Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary

Tafsīr Sūrat Al-Baqara by Sayyid ʿalī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, the Báb (1819-1850)
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38415-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies on the Qur'an

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 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 Fatima and the twelve Imams of Ithna-'ashari Shi'ism who inhabit the letters, words, verses and suras of the Book.

Cover calligraphy by Burhan Zahrai of Quran 53:11

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawson, Todd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Entering the House of Glory

Chapter One: Walaya: Luminous Love and Intimacy

Chapter Two: Tetrads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, I

Chapter Three: Heptads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, II

Chapter Four: Tajalli: Divine Glory Manifested

Chapter Five: Qa'im: Glory Embodied

Epilogue: A Mysticism of the Covenant

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Manuscripts

Bibliography of Printed Works

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Todd Lawson, Ph.D. (1988), McGill University, is emeritus professor of Islamic Thought, University of Toronto. He has published monographs and many articles on the Quran and its interpretation, including The Quran, Epic and Apocalypse (Oneworld Academic, 2017).