Bayan al-Saʽada explained

Bayan al-Saʽada
Title Orig:	بيان السعادة في مقامات العبادة
Author:	Sultan ʽAli Shah
Country:	Iran
Language:	Arabic
Subject:	Qur'anic exegesis (Tafsir)
Genre:	Islamic literature
Media Type:	Print

Bayan al-Saada fi Maqamat al-Ibada (Arabic: The Elucidation of Felicity concerning the Stations of Worship) is an exegesis on the Qur'an by Ni'matullāhī Sufi leader Sultan Ali Shah in Arabic.^[1]

Exegetic approach

This exegesis of the entire Qur'an is written from the Shi'i mystical viewpoint.^[2] In his tafsir, Sultan 'Ali Shah included exoteric as well as Sufi commentary.^[3]

See also

• Qur'an
• Qur'anic exegesis (Tafsir)
• List of tafsir works

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Institute of Ismaili Studies: Qur'anic Studies Lecture on Shi'i Tafsir Classification and Sultan'alishah's Bayan al-Sa'ada . 2013-03-08 . 2014-02-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140203022040/http://iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=111970 . dead .
2. Sufism: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam By Gholamali Haddad Adel, Mohammad Jafar Elmi, Hassan Taromi-Ra, p. 52
3. The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an - p. 359, Andrew Rippin - 2008