Stories of Love and Death, the compendium of the martyrs of love by Muġulṭāy (D. 1361). TAEI 57.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 25512 |
| Format | 20.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 288 p., publisher's hardcover with dust jacket. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707892 |
"Whoever loves passionately, remains chaste and dies, passes away a martyr." Muġulṭāy (d. 762/1361) bases his Summary of the Martyrs of Love on this apocryphal hadith which, forged in the 3rd / 9th century, allows him to include in the sphere of Islam a deadly and profane amorous passion towards a creature and to transform it into a quest for spiritual perfection under the aegis of ǧihād . The thesis was audacious: the treatise was censored and banned from sale in the markets of Cairo. Monica Balda-Tillier delivers here a powerful reconstruction of the conceptual framework which presided over the writing of Muġulṭāy's treatise. Highlighting the argumentative and narrative strategies adopted to defend the martyrdom of love against its detractors, it offers a meticulous investigation into the motives of a work that led its author to prison.
"Whoever loves passionately, remains chaste and dies, passes away a martyr." Muġulṭāy (d. 762/1361) bases his Summary of the Martyrs of Love on this apocryphal hadith which, forged in the 3rd / 9th century, allows him to include in the sphere of Islam a deadly and profane amorous passion towards a creature and to transform it into a quest for spiritual perfection under the aegis of ǧihād . The thesis was audacious: the treatise was censored and banned from sale in the markets of Cairo. Monica Balda-Tillier delivers here a powerful reconstruction of the conceptual framework which presided over the writing of Muġulṭāy's treatise. Highlighting the argumentative and narrative strategies adopted to defend the martyrdom of love against its detractors, it offers a meticulous investigation into the motives of a work that led its author to prison.