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Zusatztext This is the first major work on the key mystics and theologians who composed esoteric commentaries on the Qur'an. Fifteen erudite contributions by some of the most eminent authorities in the field of Muslim philosophy, Shi'i exegesis, Ismaili thought, Akbarian theosophy and Sufism, explore over a millennium of esoteric commentators and commentaries on the Qur'an. Accompanied by an introduction that exhaustively examines the various intellectual trends, theological schools and theosophical terminology relating to mystical exegesis of the Qur'an, The Spirit and the Letter provides the most accessible treatment of the inner dimension of Muslim scriptural hermeneutics written to date. Informationen zum Autor Annabel Keeler is an Affiliated Researcher at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a Research Associate of Wolfson College, both at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include Sufi exegesis, early to 'classical' Islamic mysticism, Persian literature and prophetology. She is the author of Sufi Hermeneutics: the Qur'an Commentary of Rashid al-Din Maybudi (London, 2006) and co-translator of the commentary of Sahl al-Tustari, under the title, Tafsir al-Tustari (Kentucky, 2011). She is currently working on a monograph on the third/ninth century mystic Abu Yazid al-Bis?ami and continuing her comparative study of Sufi commentaries on Surat Yusuf.Sajjad Rizvi is Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the University of Exeter. Trained as a historian at Oxford and Cambridge, he has previously taught at the universities of Cambridge and Bristol. A specialist of Islamic thought in the Persianate East, he is the author of Mulla ?adra Shirazi (Oxford, 2007) and Mulla ?adra and Metaphysics (London, 2009), and is currently working on a study of the same thinker's noetics. His future projects include a comparative history of philosophy in the Persianate eighteenth century, and an intellectual history of Islamic philosophical traditions in India from 1500 to 1900. Klappentext The volume focuses on esoteric interpretation as a phenomenon in the field of Qur'anic exegesis. The work shows how it has been manifested in different Muslim traditions and explores the differences and similarities of these approaches. Zusammenfassung The volume focuses on esoteric interpretation as a phenomenon in the field of Qur'anic exegesis. The work shows how it has been manifested in different Muslim traditions and explores the differences and similarities of these approaches. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors Introduction Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi Part I: Comparative Hermeneutics 1: Sara Sviri: The Countless Faces of Understanding: On Istinb¿¿, Mystical Listening and Sufi Exegesis 2: Gerhard Böwering: The Interpretation of the Arabic Letters in Early Sufism: Sulam¿ s Shar¿ ma'¿n¿ al-¿ur¿f 3: Annabel Keeler: Towards a Prophetology of Love: The Figure of Jacob in Sufi Commentaries on S¿rat Y¿suf 4: Kristin Zahra Sands: Making it Plain: Sufi Commentaries in English in the Twentieth Century Part II: Commentators and Texts in Focus 5: Meir M. Bar-Asher: Outlines of Early Ismaili-Fatimid Qur'an Exegesis 6: Peter Heath: Ibn S¿n¿'s Qur'anic Hermeneutics 7: Martin Nguyen: Qushayr¿'s Exegetical Encounter with the Mi'r¿j 8: Toby Mayer: Shahrast¿n¿'s Maf¿t¿¿ al-Asr¿r: A Medieval Ismaili System of Hermeneutics? 9: Richard Todd: Q¿naw¿'s Scriptural Hermeneutics 10: Pierre Lory: Eschatology and Hermeneutics in K¿sh¿n¿'s Ta'w¿l¿t al-Qur'¿n 11: Paul Ballanfat: Simn¿n¿ and Hermeneutics 12: Janis Esots: Speech, Book, and Healing Knowledge: The Qur'anic Hermeneutics of Mull¿ ¿adr¿ 13: Bakri Aladdin: Aspects of Mystical Hermeneutics and the Theory of the Oneness of Being (wädat al-wuj¿d) in the work of 'Abd al-Ghan¿ al-N¿bulus¿ (d. 1143/1731) 14: Mahmut Ay: The Sufi Hermeneutics of Ibn 'Aj¿ba (d. 1224/1809): A Stud...
