The Emergence of Shi'i Sufism Sultan 'Ali Shah Gunabadi and His Commentary on the Qur'an

by Cancian, Alessandro

• ISBN13: 9780198877332
• ISBN10: 0198877331
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-06-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Alessandro Cancian, Senior Research Associate, The Institute of Ismaili Studies

Alessandro Cancian is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where he works on Shi'i Sufism, Qur'anic exegesis, and the intellectual and religious history of pre-modern Iran. A historian of religions and anthropologist, he has published books and articles on religious education in Shi'i Islam, Shi'i Sufism, and Qur'anic exegesis. He edited Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Iran (Oxford, 2019).

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Map
Section I
1. Introduction: The Emergence of Twelver Shi'i Sufism in Early Modern Iran
2. Shi'i Sufism
3. Qur'anic Exegesis between Shi'ism and Mysticism
Section II
4. Sufism in Early Modern Iran
5. From Ni'matullahiyya to Gunabadiyya
6. Sultan 'Ali Shah Gunabadi (d. 1909): His Life and Legacy
Section III
7. The Tafsir Bayan al-sa'ada: An Introduction
8. A Shi'i Sufi tafsir
9. Themes, Methods and Positioning
10. A Neglected Legacy: The Bayan al-sa'ada and its Reception in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Appendix I
Annotated Translation of Sultan 'Ali Shah's Introduction to the Bayan al-sa'ada fi maqamat al-'ibada
Appendix II
The Structure of the Bayan al-sa'ada through its Subheadings
Illustrations
Bibliography
Index of Qur'anic Citations
General Index