Tafsir As Mystical Experience : Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary
<i>Tafsīr Sūrat Al-Baqara</i>by Sayyid ʿAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, <i>the Báb</i>
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Word Count
52,500 words, Guess
Page Count
210 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL34938257M
- ISBN-139789004384156
- OCLC Control Number1103964025
- OCLC Control Number1054266843
- Library of Congress Control Number2018045138
Classifications
- LCCBP128.17.L38 2018
- LCCBP128.17 .L38 2019
Description
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.
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