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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.
List of contents
- Foreword
- Note on transliteration
- Introduction
- Part I: Hermeneutics
- 1: The Hermeneutics of the Kashf al-asrar
- 2: The Hermeneutics of Mystical Commentary
- Part II: Mystical Doctrine
- 3: The Development of Love Mysticism in Khurasan
- 4: God and the Creation
- 5: Aspects of Spiritual Guidance
- 6: Mystical Theology and the Way of Love
- Part III: Maybudi's Mystical Interpretation of the Stories of the Prophets
- 7: Prolegomenon: Prophets in the Qur'an and in Sufi Exegesis
- 8: The Story of Abraham
- 9: The Story of Moses
- 10: The Story of Joseph
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Qur'anic citations
- Index
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.
