Sufi Hermeneutics The Qur''an Commentary of Rashid Al-Din Maybudi

The author explores the interplay between scriptural exegesis and mystical doctrine in a twelfth-century Sufi commentary on the Qur'an. Previously little-known outside the Persian-speaking world, it is increasingly recognized as a key work in the development of Sufi Qur'anic interpretation.

About the author

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. As well as being the author of Sufi Hermeneutics: The Qur'an Commentary of Rashīd al-Dīn Maybudī (Oxford, 2006), she is co-translator of the commentary of Sahl al-Tustarī, under the title Tafsīr al-Tustarī (Kentucky, 2011) and co-editor of The Spirit and the Letter: Approaches to the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qur'an (Oxford, 2016).

Summary

The author explores the interplay between scriptural exegesis and mystical doctrine in a twelfth-century Sufi commentary on the Qur'an. Previously little-known outside the Persian-speaking world, it is increasingly recognized as a key work in the development of Sufi Qur'anic interpretation.

Product details

• Authors: Annabel (Affiliated Researcher Keeler, Keeler Annabel, Annabel Keeler
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.10.2017
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions
• EAN: 9780198814702
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881470-2
• Pages: 414
• Series: Qur'anic Studies Series; Qur'anic Studies Series; Qur'anic Studies
• Subjects: RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Islam / Sufi, RELIGION / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings, mysticism, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, The Koran (Qur’an), Criticism & Exegesis Of Sacred Texts, Sufism & Islamic Mysticism, Islamic groups: Sufis, The Koran