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

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

Title remainder

intimacy and ecstasy in Quran commentary: Tafsīr sūrat al-baqara by Sayyid ʻAlī Muhammad Shīrāzī, the Báb (1819-1850)

Statement of responsibility

by Todd Lawson

Creator

• Lawson, Todd, 1948-

Contributor

• Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850

Author

• Lawson, Todd, 1948-

Subject

• Babism
• Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Mysticism -- Islam
• Mysticism -- Islam
• Mysticism -- Islam
• Qurʼan, Sūrat al-Baqarah
• Qurʼan, Sūrat al-Baqarah
• Qurʼan, Sūrat al-Baqarah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
• RELIGION / Islam / General
• Sufism
• Sufism
• Sufism
• Babism
• Babism

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

2In 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{u2019}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 2abode of glory3 and an abiding spiritual encounter with the divine through the prophet, his daughter Fatima and the twelve Imams of Ithna-{u2019}ashari Shi{u2019}ism who inhabit the letters, words, verses and suras of the Book3--Publisher{u2019}s description

Member of

• Texts and studies on the Qurʼān, v. 14

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

297.1/226

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BP128.17

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Texts and studies on the Qur'ān

Series volume

volume 14