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The spirit and the letter : approaches to the esoteric interpretation of the Qurʼan / edited by Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Qur'anic studies series ; 15.Publication details: London Oxford University Press 2016Description: xxiii, 538 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780198783336 (hbk.)
  • 0198783337 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • BP 130.45 SPI 23
LOC classification:
  • BP130.45 SPI .S65 2016
Contents:
Introduction /Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi -- The countless faces of understanding: on Istinbāṭ, mystical listening and sufi exegesis / Sara Sviri -- The interpretation of Arabic letters in early sufism: Sulamī's Sharḥ maʻānī al-ḥurūf /Gerhard Böwering -- Towards a prophetology of love: the figure of Jacob in sufi commentaries on Sūrat Yūsuf / Annabel Keeler -- Making it plain: Sufi commentaries in English in the 20th century / Kristin Zahra Sands -- Outlines of early Ismaili-Fatimid Qurʼan exegesis / Meir M. Bar-Asher -- Ibn Sīnā's Qurʼanic hermeneutics / Peter Heath -- Qushayrī's exegetical encounter with the Miʻrāj / Martin Nguyen -- Shahrastānī's Mafātīḥ al-asrār: a medieval Ismaili system of hermeneutics / Toby Mayer -- Qūnawī's scriptural hermeneutics / Ricahrd Todd -- Eschatology and hermeneutics in Kāshānī's Taʼwīlāt al-Qurʼan / Pierre Lory -- Simnānī and hermeneutics / Paul Ballanfat -- Speach, book and healing knowledge: the Qurʼanic hermeneutics of Mullā Ṣadrā / Janis Esots -- Aspects of mystical hermeneutics and the theory of the oneness of Being (Wahdat al-wujūd) in the work of ʻAbd al-Ghānī al-Nābulisī (d. 1143/1731) / Bakri Aladdin -- The sufi hermeneutics of Ibn ʻAjība (d. 1224/1809): a study of some eschatological verses of the Qurʼan / Mahmut Ay -- Beyond the letter: explanation (tafsīr) versus adaptation (taṭbīq) in Ṭabaṭabāīʼs al-Mīzān /Amin Ehteshāmi and Sajjad Rizvi
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Books Books JST Library General Stacks BP<br>Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc. BP 130.45 SPI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Donated by Fr. Daniel Madigan SJ, 108993
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 475 - 509) and indexes.

Introduction /Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi -- The countless faces of understanding: on Istinbāṭ, mystical listening and sufi exegesis / Sara Sviri -- The interpretation of Arabic letters in early sufism: Sulamī's Sharḥ maʻānī al-ḥurūf /Gerhard Böwering -- Towards a prophetology of love: the figure of Jacob in sufi commentaries on Sūrat Yūsuf / Annabel Keeler -- Making it plain: Sufi commentaries in English in the 20th century / Kristin Zahra Sands -- Outlines of early Ismaili-Fatimid Qurʼan exegesis / Meir M. Bar-Asher -- Ibn Sīnā's Qurʼanic hermeneutics / Peter Heath -- Qushayrī's exegetical encounter with the Miʻrāj / Martin Nguyen -- Shahrastānī's Mafātīḥ al-asrār: a medieval Ismaili system of hermeneutics / Toby Mayer -- Qūnawī's scriptural hermeneutics / Ricahrd Todd -- Eschatology and hermeneutics in Kāshānī's Taʼwīlāt al-Qurʼan / Pierre Lory -- Simnānī and hermeneutics / Paul Ballanfat -- Speach, book and healing knowledge: the Qurʼanic hermeneutics of Mullā Ṣadrā / Janis Esots -- Aspects of mystical hermeneutics and the theory of the oneness of Being (Wahdat al-wujūd) in the work of ʻAbd al-Ghānī al-Nābulisī (d. 1143/1731) / Bakri Aladdin -- The sufi hermeneutics of Ibn ʻAjība (d. 1224/1809): a study of some eschatological verses of the Qurʼan / Mahmut Ay -- Beyond the letter: explanation (tafsīr) versus adaptation (taṭbīq) in Ṭabaṭabāīʼs al-Mīzān /Amin Ehteshāmi and Sajjad Rizvi

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