The approaches to the esoteric interpretation of the Qurʼan Keeler, Annabel Razavi, Sajjad The Institute of Ismaili Studies enk 2016 eng xxiii, 538 pages ; 23 cm. Introduction /Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi -- The countless faces of understanding: on Istinbat, mystical listening and sufi exegesis / Sara Sviri -- The interpretation of Arabic letters in early sufism: Sulami's Sharh maʻani al-huruf /Gerhard Bowering -- Towards a prophetology of love: the figure of Jacob in sufi commentaries on Surat Yusuf / 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 Sina's Qurʼanic hermeneutics / Peter Heath -- Qushayri's exegetical encounter with the Miʻraj / Martin Nguyen -- Shahrastani's Mafatih al-asrar: a medieval Ismaili system of hermeneutics / Toby Mayer -- Qunawi's scriptural hermeneutics / Ricahrd Todd -- Eschatology and hermeneutics in Kashani's Taʼwilat al-Qurʼan / Pierre Lory -- Simnani and hermeneutics / Paul Ballanfat -- Speach, book and healing knowledge: the Qurʼanic hermeneutics of Mulla Sadra / Janis Esots -- Aspects of mystical hermeneutics and the theory of the oneness of Being (Wahdat al-wujud) in the work of ʻAbd al-Ghani al-Nabulisi (d. 1143/1731) / Bakri Aladdin -- The sufi hermeneutics of Ibn ʻAjiba (d. 1224/1809): a study of some eschatological verses of the Qurʼan / Mahmut Ay -- Beyond the letter: explanation (tafsir) versus adaptation (tatbiq) in Tabatabaiʼs al-Mizan /Amin Ehteshami and Sajjad Rizvi edited by Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi Includes bibliographical references (pages 475 - 509) and indexes. Criticism, interpretation, etc Congresses Sufism Doctrines Sufism Doctrines History BPD256 9780198783336 (hardback) 0198783337 (hardback) 2017287164 UKIIJ 170210 20240313103454.0 19489627 eng