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1 online resource (312 pages) |
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Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions Ser |
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Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions Ser
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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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TU; V; W; Z |
| 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429. Donatus moralisatus.
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Qushayrī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, 986-1072. Naḥw al-Qulūb al-Kabīr
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Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429. Donatus moralisatus
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Qushayrī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, 986-1072. Naḥw al-Qulūb al-Kabīr
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Mysticism.
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Sufism.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Study and teaching
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
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Mysticism
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mysticism.
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Sufism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Study and teaching.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
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Mysticism.
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Sufism.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823277261 |
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0823277267 |
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9780823276745 |
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0823276740 |
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