Seeing God in Sufi Qur'an Commentaries: Crossings Between This World and the Otherworld

ISBN-13: 9781474435055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Pieter Coppens

Opis

Discusses the concept of the vision of God in Sufi Qur'an Commentaries

Spis treści

List of abbreviations; 1.Introduction; 2. Sufi Commentaries from the 4th/10th to the 7th/13th Centuries: The Rise of a Genre; 3. The Ultimate Boundary Crossing: Paradise and Hell in the Commentaries; 4. The First Boundary Crossing: Adam Descending; 5. Excursus: Embodying the Vision of God in Theology and Sufism; 6. Arin?: Declined at the Boundary?; 7. A Vision at the Utmost Boundary; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography.