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Evidence that #Hashiya writing is alive and well in #ToddLawson much delayed publication of his revised #PhD from 1988 with some caveats #Babi #ShiiTafsir #Shaykhis #Bahais 1/ ImageImage
As with most of #ToddLawson writing it is elegantly composed and insightful not least on the very notion of #tafsir as the mystical encounter with the divine in which the letters express the #deus_revelatus of the 14 #impeccables of the #Shii tradition 2/
Nevertheless the somewhat odd idea - that #Corbin himself peddled and which #Lawson perpetuates - that the #Bab constituted the culmination of the #Shii tradition is one that has been consistently critiqued by #Shaykhis and the wider #TwelverShii tradition 3/
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