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


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This history of Sufi conceptions of the hereafter - often imagined as a place of corporeal reward (Paradise) or punishment (Hell) - is built upon the study of five medieval Sufi Qur'an commentaries. Pieter Coppens shows that boundary crossing from this world to the otherworld, and vice versa, revolves around the idea of meeting with and the vision of God; a vision which for some Sufis is not limited to the hereafter. The Qur'anic texts selected for study - all key verses on seeing God - are placed in their broader religious and social context and are shown to provide a useful and varied source for the reconstruction of a history of Sufi eschatology and the vision of God.



Author: Pieter Coppens
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781474435062
ISBN10: 1474435068
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam | Rituals & Practice
- Religion | Islam | Theology
- Religion | Islam | Koran & Sacred Writings

About the Author

Pieter Coppens is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Theology of VU University, Amsterdam. Besides Islamic eschatology, his research focuses on the history of Qur'anic Exegesis and the history of Sufism.