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Author Lawson, Todd, 1948- author.

Title Tafsir as mystical experience : intimacy and ecstasy in Quran commentary: Tafsīr sūrat al-baqara by Sayyid ʻAlī Muhammad Shīrāzī, the Báb (1819-1850) / by Todd Lawson
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages)
Series Texts and studies on the Qur'ān ; volume 14
Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; v. 14.
Contents Abbreviations -- Introduction: entering the house of glory: exegesis as mystical intimacy with the divine -- 1. Walaya: Luminous love and intimacy -- 2. Tetrads: Architecture of illumined intimacy, I -- 3. Heptads: Architecture of illumined intimacy, II -- 4. Tajalli: Divine glory manifested -- 5. Qa'im: Divine glory embodied -- Epilogue: A mysticism of the covenant -- Bibliography of printed works -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 10, 2018)
Subject Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850. Tafsīr Sūrat al-Baqarah
SUBJECT Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Baqarah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Baqarah fast
Subject Mysticism -- Islam.
Sufism.
Babism.
Sufism.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Babism
Mysticism -- Islam
Sufism
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850. Tafsīr Sūrat al-Baqarah. English
LC no. 2018045583
ISBN 9789004385436
9004385436