Neither Belief Nor Unbelief : Intentional Ambivalence in Al-maarri’s Luzum, H...

Description: Neither Belief Nor Unbelief : Intentional Ambivalence in Al-maarri’s Luzum, Hardcover by Grigoryan, Sona, ISBN 3110772531, ISBN-13 9783110772531, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Die Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients erscheinen als Supplement der Zeitschrift Der Islam, gegründet 1910 von Carl Heinrich Becker, einem der Väter der modernen Islamwissenschaft. Ganz im Sinne Beckers ist das Ziel der Studien die Erforschung der vergangenen Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients, ihrer Glaubenssysteme und der zugrundeliegenden sozialen und ökonomischen Verhältnisse, von der Iberischen Halbinsel bis nach Zentralasien, von den ukrainischen Steppen zum Hochland des Jemen. Über die grundlegende philologische Arbeit an der literarischen Überlieferung hinaus nutzen die Studien die archivalischen, sowie materiellen und archäologischen Überlieferungen als Quelle für die gesamte Bandbreite der historisch arbeitenden Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Th re-examines the religious thought and receptions of the Syrian poet Abu l-?Ala? al-Ma?arri () and one of his best known works - Luzum ma la yalzam (The Self-Imposed Unnecessity), a collection of poems, which, although widely studied, needs a thorough re-evaluation regarding matters of (un)belief. Given the contradictory nature of al-Ma?arri’s oeuvre and Luzum in particular, there have been two major trends in assessing al-Ma?arri’s religious thought in modern scholarship. One presented al-Ma?arri as an unbeliever and a freethinker arguing that through contradictions, he practiced taqiya, ., dissimulation in order to avoid persecution. The other, often apologetically, presented al-Ma?arri as a sincere Muslim. This study proposes that the notion of ambivalence is a more appropriate analytical tool to apply to the reading of Luzum, specifically in matters of belief. This ambivalence is directly conditioned by the historical and intellectual circumstances al-Ma?arri lived in and he intentionally left it unsolved and intense as a robust stance against claims of certainty. Going beyond reductive interpretations, the notion of ambivalence allows for an integrative paradigm in dealing with contradictions and dissonance.

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Book Title: Neither Belief Nor Unbelief : Intentional Ambivalence in Al-maarr

Number of Pages: 215 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Neither Belief Nor Unbelief : Intentional Ambivalence in Al-MaʿArrī's LuzūM

Publisher: DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter

Publication Year: 2022

Subject: Islam / History, Middle Eastern, Religious, Islam / General, Modern / General, Europe / Medieval

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 15.7 Oz

Author: Sona Grigoryan

Item Length: 9.1 in

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy, History

Series: Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East Ser.

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Hardcover