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

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, revol...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Coppens, Pieter (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Series:	Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Apocalypticism and Eschatology.
Subjects:	Qurʼan > Commentaries. Sufi literature > History and criticism.