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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 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 “abode of glory” and an abiding spiritual encounter with the divine through the prophet, his daughter Fāṭima and the twelve Imams of Ithna-ʿasharī Shiʿism who inhabit the letters, words, verses and suras of the Book. Cover calligraphy by Burhan Zahrai of Quran 53:11

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Introduction: Entering the House of Glory Chapter One: Walāya: Luminous Love and Intimacy Chapter Two: Tetrads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, I Chapter Three: Heptads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, II Chapter Four: Tajallī: Divine Glory Manifested Chapter Five: Qāʾim: Glory Embodied Epilogue: A Mysticism of the Covenant Acknowledgements Abbreviations Manuscripts Bibliography of Printed Works Index

Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary: Tafsīr sūrat al-baqara by Sayyid ʿAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, The Báb (1819-1850)

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/12/2018
      ISBN13: 9789004384156, 978-9004384156
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 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 “abode of glory” and an abiding spiritual encounter with the divine through the prophet, his daughter Fāṭima and the twelve Imams of Ithna-ʿasharī Shiʿism who inhabit the letters, words, verses and suras of the Book. Cover calligraphy by Burhan Zahrai of Quran 53:11

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Entering the House of Glory Chapter One: Walāya: Luminous Love and Intimacy Chapter Two: Tetrads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, I Chapter Three: Heptads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, II Chapter Four: Tajallī: Divine Glory Manifested Chapter Five: Qāʾim: Glory Embodied Epilogue: A Mysticism of the Covenant Acknowledgements Abbreviations Manuscripts Bibliography of Printed Works Index

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