Autore
Khalfallah, Nejmeddine

Titolo
La légalisation de l'amour soufi chez al-Madanī (1888-1959)
Periodico
In verbis
Anno: 2012 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 75 - Pagina finale: 90

The collection I deal with contains thirty Sufi tales telling of love in the10th-11st􀂕century Iraq. These stories were recited at litany-meetings as wellas in the course of exemplary teachings carrying out an educational andidealizing function. In these stories, Sufi Love occupies a prominent placealthough it doesn't follow a single direction (divine, human, erotic...). Theanalysis of our collection shows that Love is more than a simple narrativepattern: it is the propeller of every event, the force moving the characters,the main theme that holds up the intrigue. The narrative sequences retracethe variants and the transformations of a same core: the affection. Theaffection for the family becomes divine love, for a woman, nearing to God;the abandonment of the family (wife and children), asceticism.Outside this narrative aspect, which is very instructive and which weshall discuss in a second moment, there is a lexical field that refers to thismultiple love: 'išq, hubb, raghba, kalaf, danaf etc. These terms deserve anetymological as well as a contextual analysis to show how far they are ableto convey this tension between the divine and the carnal.In a third moment, we shall analyze the attitude of the Islamic Jurists(fuqahā184), especially the Hanbalites, who opposed not only the charge oflove which the Sufis gave to their 'ibāda, but also their vocabulary, whichappeared in their eyes like an act of contempt towards God. For instance,they deem talking to Allah about 'išq unlawful because of the fleshlyconnotation of the term.In this article, I tried to maintain a triple approach: narratological,lexicological, legal and social. Indeed, the goal of this analysis is to showhow these three dimensions intersect to create the specificity of the SufiLove, in an era of the Middle Ages well-known for the influence of theChristian and the Hellenistic traditions.



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