Interview with Dr Toby Mayer
Publication: Keys to the Arcana: Shahrastani鈥檚 Esoteric Commentary on the Qur鈥檃n
Translator: Dr Toby Mayer
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Questions addressed in the interview:
- What is the significance to scholarship of presenting Shahrastani鈥檚 Keys to the Arcana?
- Who was Shahrastani?
- What was the historical and intellectual context of his Qur鈥檃n commentary?
- Is Keys to the Arcana distinguished by any specific interpretative methodology?
- How does Shahrastani's commentary reflect Shi'i or, more specifically, Isma'ili influence?
- Does Shahrastani have a distinctive concept of the Qur鈥檃n and how is this reflected in the details of his commentary?
- What, if any, is the modern relevance of this text?
