Seeing God in Sufi Qur'an Commentaries: Crossings Between This World and the Otherworld

by Pieter Coppens

Book Overview

This history of Sufi conceptions of the hereafter - often imagined as a place of corporeal reward (Paradise) or punishment (Hell) - is built upon the study of five medieval Sufi Qur'an commentaries. Pieter Coppens shows that boundary crossing from this world to the otherworld, and vice versa, revolves around the idea of meeting with and the vision of God; a vision which for some Sufis is not limited to the hereafter. The Qur'anic texts selected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474435068
• ISBN13: 9781474435062
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"