Unveiling of the Mysteries and the Provision of the Pious
General Material Designation
[book]
Other Title Information
: Kashf al-Asrar wa Uddat al-Abrar
First Statement of Responsibility
\ by Rashid al-Din Maybudi; selections translated by William C. Chittick
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Amman, Jordan
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xx, 627 p.
SERIES
Series Title
Great commentaries on the Holy Quran
Volume Designation
; Volume V
GENERAL NOTES
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Translated from Arabic and Persian sources
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Bibliography
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Index
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Rashid al-Din Maybudi, author of this Sufi commentary on the Quran, was a major twelfth-century scholar of Maybud, near Yazd in central Iran. This commentary, called Kashf al-asrar wauddat al-abriar [The Unveiling of the Mysteries and the Provision of the Pious], is one of the earliest and longest commentaries on the Quran in the Persian language, though a good portion of it is in Arabic. Maybudi explains select verses and their allusions (ishara); by this he means the manner in which the words and imagery can be understood as pointing to various dimensions of the soul's relationship with God. Maybudi's work also came to be known by the subtitle of the published Persian edition, Tafsir Khawaja Abdallah Ansari [Quran Commentary of Master Abdallah Ansari] because Maybudi wrote it after having studied the Quran commentary of Ansari (d. 1088), an influential scholar and Sufi saint from Herat." --