Neither Belief Nor Unbelief
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The book re-examines the religious thought and receptions of the Syrian poet Abu l-¿Ala¿ al-Ma¿arri (d.1057) and one of his best known works - Luzum ma la yalzam (The Self-Imposed Unnecessity), a collection of poems, which, although widely studied, needs a thorough re-evaluation regarding matters of (un)belief. Given the contradictory nature of al-Ma¿arri's oeuvre and Luzum in particular, there have been two major trends in assessing al-Ma¿arri's religious thought in modern scholarship. One presented al-Ma¿arri as an unbeliever and a freethinker arguing that through contradictions, he practiced taqiya, i.e., dissimulation in order to avoid persecution. The other, often apologetically, presented al-Ma¿arri as a sincere Muslim. This study proposes that the notion of ambivalence is a more appropriate analytical tool to apply to the reading of Luzum, specifically in matters of belief. This ambivalence is directly conditioned by the historical and intellectual circumstances al-Ma¿arri lived in and he intentionally left it unsolved and intense as a robust stance against claims of certainty. Going beyond reductive interpretations, the notion of ambivalence allows for an integrative paradigm in dealing with contradictions and dissonance.
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- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal215
- Udgivelsesdato30-12-2022
- ISBN139783110772531
- Forlag De Gruyter
- MålgruppeFrom age 0
- FormatHardback
- Udgave1
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