Todd Lawson

&lt;i>Tafs&#299;r S&#363;rat Al-Baqara&lt;/i>by Sayyid &#703;Al&#299; Mu&#7717;ammad Sh&#299;r&#257;z&#299;, &lt;i>the Báb&lt;/i>

Tafsir As Mystical Experience : Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary

The first book to examine the controversial Qur'anic phrase which divides Christianity and Islam. According to the majority of modern Muslims and Christians, the Qur'an denies the crucifixion of Jesus, and with it, one of the most sacred beliefs of Christianity. However, it is only mentioned in one verse - 'They did not kill him and they did not crucify him, rather, it only appeared so to them' - and contrary to popular belief, its translation has been the subject of fierce debate among Muslims for centuries. This innovative work is the first book devoted to the issue, delving deeply into largely ignored Arabic sources, which suggest that the origins of the conventional translation may lie within the Christian Church. Arranged along historical lines, and covering various Muslim schools of thought, from Sunni to Sufi, "The Crucifixion and the Qur'an" unravels the crucial dispute that separates the World's two principal faiths.

A Study in the History of Muslim Thought

The Crucifixion and the Qur'an

Tom Connor

An empty nester's guide to remodeling features twenty-one homes and color illustrations and photographs highlighting floor plans and design ideas for a wide variety of homes that will ease the transition from busy family household to quiet homestead.

Reinventing Home Once the Kids are Grown

The House to Ourselves

An empty nester's guide to remodeling features twenty sample homes and hundreds of color illustrations and photographs highlighting floor plans and design ideas for a wide variety of homes that will ease the transition from busy family household to quiet homestead. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Reinventing Home Once the Kids Are Grown

Md. Mahmudul Hasan

Mahmoud Dhaouadi

M. Reza Pirbhai

Brett Wilson

Jay Willoughby 

Yusef Waghid and Nuraan Davids

Zahra Seif-Amirhosseini

Celene Ayat Lizzio

Sophia Rose Shafi 

Turan Kayaoglu 

Emrah Sahin

Yushau Sodiq

Farina Marie 

F.B. Sekaleshfar

Sulaiman Kamal-deen Olawale

Saim Kayadibi

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 30:2

Tafsir as Mystical Experience by Todd Lawson, on a distinctive type of Quran commentary, is important for both the history of tafsir and Islamic mysticism.

The Tafsīr sūrat al-baqara by Sayyid ʿAlī Muḥammad, The Báb (1819-1850)

Tafsīr as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Qurʾān Commentary

Of the several works on the rise and development of the Babi movement, especially those dealing with the life and work of its founder, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, few deal directly with the compelling and complex web of mysticism, theology and philosophy found in his earliest compositions. This book examines the Islamic roots of the Babi religion, (and by extension the later Baha’i faith which developed out of it), through the Qur’anic commentaries of the Bab and sheds light on its relationship to the wider religious milieu and its profound debt to esoteric Islam, especially Shi'ism. Todd Lawson places the two earliest writings of the Bab within the diverse contexts necessary to understand them, in order to explain why these writings made sense to and inspired his followers. He delves into the history of the tafsir (Qur’an commentary) genre of Islamic scholarship, situates these early writings in the Akhbari, Sufi and most importantly Shaykhi traditions of Islam. In the process, he identifies both the continuities and discontinuities between these works and earlier works of Shi’i tafsir, helping us appreciate significant elements of the Bab’s thought and claims. Filling an important gap in the existing literature on the Babi movement, this book will be of greatest interest to students and scholars of Qur'an commentary, Mysticism, Shi'ism, the modern history of Iran and messianism.

Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion

Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam

Sebastian Günther

Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thought on paradise, death, and the hereafter. It promises to become the definitive reference work on Islamic eschatology.

Volume 1: Foundations and the Formation of a Tradition. Reflections on the Hereafter in the Quran and Islamic Religious Thought / Volume 2: Continuity and Change. The Plurality of Eschatological Representations in the Islamicate World Thought (SET)

Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols)

Todd Lawson

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