Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Mystics in Medieval Egypt (7th-16th Centuries). Interculturalities and Historical Contexts.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 17621 |
| Format | 16.7 x 24.7 |
| Détails | 474 p., bound. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
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Proceedings of the conference organized at the IFAO, November 22-24, 2010. This collective volume brings together seventeen studies by specialists in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim mystics, focusing on the developments and interactions of these traditions in medieval Egypt, using corpora in Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic. Far from a simple phenomenological comparison, the aim is to explore the models, sources, and historical conditions common to the three mystical traditions in specific spatio-temporal frameworks. Such an innovative approach offers fruitful perspectives for analyzing the relationships between spiritualities and historical contexts. Understanding the porosity of interfaith boundaries in the multicultural and multilinguistic context of medieval Egypt amounts to admitting that the different religious communities were able to interact and influence each other even in the most intimate aspects of their identities. The presence of the Other thus proves to be a powerful factor of creativity and renewal for each religious tradition and not only a source of conflict.
Proceedings of the conference organized at the IFAO, November 22-24, 2010. This collective volume brings together seventeen studies by specialists in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim mystics, focusing on the developments and interactions of these traditions in medieval Egypt, using corpora in Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic. Far from a simple phenomenological comparison, the aim is to explore the models, sources, and historical conditions common to the three mystical traditions in specific spatio-temporal frameworks. Such an innovative approach offers fruitful perspectives for analyzing the relationships between spiritualities and historical contexts. Understanding the porosity of interfaith boundaries in the multicultural and multilinguistic context of medieval Egypt amounts to admitting that the different religious communities were able to interact and influence each other even in the most intimate aspects of their identities. The presence of the Other thus proves to be a powerful factor of creativity and renewal for each religious tradition and not only a source of conflict.