The unveiling of the mysteries and the provision of the pious =
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Kashf al-asrār wa ʻuddat al-abrār /
First Statement of Responsibility
by Rashīd al-Dīn Maybudī ; 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
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xx, 627 pages ;
Dimensions
28 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Great commentaries on the Holy Qurʼan ;
Volume Designation
Volume V
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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." --