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Description

1. xix, 288 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. 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 distinct religious traditions, offer a metaphor for how the self is embedded in spiritual reality. Reading The Grammar of Hearts (Nahw al-qulub) by the great Sufi shaykh and Islamic scholar 'Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri (d. 1074) and Moralized Grammar (Donatus moralizatus) by Christian theologian Jean Gerson (d. 1429), Longo reveals how both authors use the rules of language and syntax to advance their pastoral goals. Indeed, grammar provides the two masters with a fresh way of explaining spiritual reality to their pupils and to discipline the souls of their readers in the hopes that their writings would make others adept in the grammar of the heart.

Series statement

1. Comparative theology : thinking across traditions

Uniform title

1. Comparative theology--thinking across traditions.

Subject

1. Sufism
2. Grammar, Comparative and general > Study and teaching
3. Grammatik
4. Language and languages > Religious aspects
5. Qušairī, Abd-al-Karīm Ibn-Hawāzin al- 986-1073
6. Text
7. Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429 > Donatus moralisatus
8. Qushayrī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin, 986-1072 > Naḥw al-Qulūb al-Kabīr
9. Mysticism
10. Sufismus
11. Mystik

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: 1.Arabic, Latin, and the Discipline of Grammar in the Worlds of Qushayri 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 Fusaha': Qushayri's Advanced Grammar of Hearts -- 6.The Fruits of Comparison: Constructing a Theology of Grammar.

Call number

1. JFE 19-118

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Longo, F. Dominic, author.

Title

1. Spiritual grammar : genre and the saintly subject in Islam and Christianity / F. Dominic Longo.

Publisher

1. New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Comparative theology : thinking across traditions
2. Comparative theology--thinking across traditions.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2016058787

ISBN

1. 9780823275724 (hardcover alkaline paper)
2. 0823275728 (hardcover alkaline paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 19-118