Spiritual Grammar : : Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity / / F. Dominic Longo.
Spiritual Grammar identifies a genre of religious literature that until now has not been recognized as such. In this surprising and theoretically nuanced study, F. Dominic Longo reveals how grammatical structures of language addressed in two medieval texts published nearly four centuries apart, from...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- PREFACE
- Introduction: Genre Trouble
- 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 Fuṣaḥāʾ
- 6. The Fruits of Comparison
- Appendix: Translation of Jean Gerson's Moralized Grammar
- NOTES
- INDEX