Gnostic apocalypse and Islam
Subtitle: Qur'an, tafsir and messianism
By: Todd Lawson
Series: Iranian studies -- 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; N.Y., N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415495394; 9780203801529
Subjects: Doctrines; Criticism, interpretation; Messianism; Babism; Koran; Gnosticism; History; Messiah; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Qurʼan, apocalypse & gnosis; title: Commentary and imitation; title: Charismatic text, messianic exegesis; title: Voices of the text; title: Remembrance and gate; title: Center of existence; title: Concidentia oppositorum in the primal point; title: The metaleptic Joseph; title: The shirt, the bees & gnostic apocalypse; title: Conclusion: a hermeneutic spiral.