Tafsir as mystical experience: intimacy and ecstasy in Quran commentary : the Tafsir Surat al-Baqara by Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad, the Bab (1819-1850) /

Tafsir as mystical experience: intimacy and ecstasy in Quran commentary : the Tafsir Surat al-Baqara by Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad, the Bab (1819-1850) /

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 w...

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Main Author: Lawson, Todd, 1948- (Author)

Other Authors: Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Series: Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān 14.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

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Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, > 1819-1850. > Tafsīr Sūrat al-Baqarah.
Qurʼan. > Sūrat al-Baqarah > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Mysticism > Islam.
Sufism.
Babism.

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Call Number: BP128.17 .L38 2018

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