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|b This paper provides a critical study of the classical Sufi commentator’s mystical vision as applied to the Quranic passages. In the following pages, I will address the type of hermeneutics that has been applied to the Quranic texts’ mystical level, which is primarily found in the Sufi works of Ruzbihan al-Baqli and Abd al-Razzaq al- Kashani. One may find the same type of hermeneutical works with more detailed mystical references in the commentaries of al-Tustari, al-Qushayri, al-Sarraj, Maybudi, al-Muhasibi, al-Sulami, Ibn Arabi, al-Ghazali, and other early Sufi exegetes, all of whom sought to collect what earlier scholars had said. Other western contemporary scholars, among them Ernst, Sands, Bowering, and others who analyzed the Quran’s mystical message from historical, philosophical, philological, psychological, and rational angles in order to rebut other scholars’ views and substantiate their own are also analyzed. This paper consists of two main sections: (1) an examination of the mystical vision of early Sufi exegetes, studies these interpretations, and highlights their methods of interpretation and (2) the practical case study, which examines Sufi hermeneutics as regards the Quranic passages of Moses and al-Khidr mentioned in Surah 18:60, 61 and the prophet Abraham’s story mentioned 2:58, stresses their allegorical interpretations and studies their metaphorical meaning of various terms.
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