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Author Coppens, Pieter, author.

Title Seeing God in Sufi Qur'an commentaries : crossings between this world and the otherworld / Pieter Coppens.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Sufi Qurʼan Commentaries: 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 Arinī: Declined at the Boundary?; 7 A Vision at the Utmost Boundary; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The first in-depth study of the concept of the vision of God in Sufi eschatology, not only focusing on the hereafter, but also on this-worldly vision.
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Subject Qurʼan -- Commentaries.
Qurʼan.
Genre/Form Commentaries.
Subject Qurʼan.
Sufi literature -- History and criticism.
Sufi literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9781474435055 147443505X (OCoLC)1009247699
ISBN 9781474435079 (electronic book)
1474435076 (electronic book)
9781474435055
147443505X