Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary: Tafsīr Sūrat Al-Baqara by Sayyid ʿalī Muḥammad Sh&#

by Todd Lawson

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 B?b'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004384154
• ISBN13: 9789004384156
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"