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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan Sūrat al-Baqarah—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]
• Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī 1819-1850—Tafsīr Sūrat al-Baqarah [Browse]
• Mysticism—Islam [Browse]
• Sufism [Browse]
• Babism [Browse]

Series

• Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; v. 14. [More in this series]
• Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; volume 14 [More in this series]

Contains

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

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

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

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.

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ISBN

• 9789004384156 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 9004384154 (hardcover : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2018045138

OCLC

1103964025

Other standard number

• 99980841387

RCP

C - S

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