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Author Longo, F. Dominic

Title Spiritual Grammar : Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
Series Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions Ser
Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions Ser
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction. Genre Trouble: Queering Grammar for Spiritual Purposes; 1 Arabic, Latin, and the Discipline of Grammar in the Worlds of Qushayrī and Gerson; 2 Genres and Genders of Gerson; 3 Gerson's "Moralized" Primer of Spiritual Grammar; 4 From the Names of God to the Grammar of Hearts; 5 Forming Spiritual Fu.a.a.: Qushayri's Advanced Grammar of Hearts; 6 The Fruits of Comparison: Constructing a Theology of Grammar; Appendix. Translation of Jean Gerson's Moralized Grammar; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S
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Summary Literary analysis and theological interpretation of Catholic, University of Paris chancellor Jean Gerson's (d. 1429) Donatus moralizatus and Muslim, Sufi scholar ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī's (d. 1072) Naḥw al-qulūb. Argues that the genre of these two religious texts aims to engender saintly readers and uses grammar as metaphor for spiritual realities
Analysis Christian Theology
Islamic Theology
Jean Gerson
Literary genre
Medieval theology
Sufism
al-Qushayrī
grammar
ʿAbd al-Karīm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429. Donatus moralisatus.
Qushayrī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, 986-1072. Naḥw al-Qulūb al-Kabīr
SUBJECT Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429. Donatus moralisatus
Qushayrī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, 986-1072. Naḥw al-Qulūb al-Kabīr
Donatus moralisatus (Gerson, Jean) fast
Subject Mysticism.
Sufism.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Study and teaching
Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
Mysticism
mysticism.
Sufism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Study and teaching
Language and languages -- Religious aspects
Mysticism
Sufism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823277261
0823277267
9780823276745
0823276740