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

/ by Todd Lawson

Main Author:
  • Lawson, Todd, Auteur Idref
    • Language: anglaisCountries: PAYS-BAS, ETATS-UNISPublication: Leiden; Boston (Mass.): Brill, copyright 2019Description: 1 vol. (XIV-210 p.); fac-sim., couv. ill.; 25 cmppn: 236031244 SUDOCISBN: 978-90-04-38415-6 ; 90-04-38415-4Collection: Texts and studies on the Quran, 14, 1567-2808Classification: 23IR (Iran), 200 (Religions, Religious sciences)Abstract:
    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.
    Bibliography: Bibliogr. p. [181]-196. Notes bibliogr. IndexSubject - Uniform Title: Coran, Critique et exégèse | Coran, Commentaires Subject - Topical Name: Mystique, Islam | Babisme
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    Bibliogr. p. [181]-196. Notes bibliogr. Index

    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. éditeur

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