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Keys to the Arcana - Shahrastani's Esoteric Commentary on the Qur'an (Paperback)
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Keys to the Arcana - Shahrastani's Esoteric Commentary on the Qur'an (Paperback)
Series: Qur'anic Studies Series
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Only preserved in a single manuscript in Tehran, this remarkable
twelfth-century Qur'anic commentary by Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Karim
al- Shahrastani marks the achievement of a lifelong, arduous quest
for knowledge. Shahrastani began writing Mafatih al-asrar or Keys
to the Arcana towards the end of his life and the work reflects the
brilliant radicalism of his more private religious views. The
introduction and opening chapter of this virtually unknown work is
presented here in a bilingual edition, which also includes an
introduction and contextual notes by Toby Mayer. In Keys to the
Arcana, Shahrastani breaks down the text of the Qur'an and analyses
it from a linguistic point of view, with reference to the history
of Qur'anic interpretation. The author's ultimate aim is to use an
elaborate set of complimentary concepts - the 'keys' of the work's
title - to unearth the esoteric meanings of the Qur'anic verses,
which he calls the 'arcana' of the verses (asrar al-ayat). A
historian of religious and philosophical doctrines, Shahrastani has
generally been considered to be a spokesman for the Sunni religious
establishment under the Seljuqs. The complimentary concepts in
question, however, appear to derive from the Isma'ili Shi'i
intellectual tradition, indicating that the author may have been
secretly involved in the Isma'ili movement. Shahrastani 's
unusually esoteric and highly systematic exegesis of the Qur'an
provides a vivid picture of the mature state of scriptural
commentary in the twelfth-century CE. Dr Mayer's meticulous
translation of Shahrastani 's Introduction and Commentary on Surat
al-Fatiha, supplemented by the Arabic text, allows the reader and
scholar access to this intriguing Muslim intellectual work for the
first time.
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