03632nam 22007335 450 991082504660332120230809234128.00-8232-8369-00-8232-7726-70-8232-7674-010.1515/9780823276745(CKB)4340000000194102(MiAaPQ)EBC4939449(StDuBDS)EDZ0001809957(OCoLC)1000453758(MdBmJHUP)muse61501(DE-B1597)555397(DE-B1597)9780823276745(OCoLC)1178769316(EXLCZ)99434000000019410220200723h20172017 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSpiritual Grammar Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity /F. Dominic LongoFirst edition.New York, NY :Fordham University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (312 pages)Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions ;4Includes index.0-8232-7572-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --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 --INDEXSpiritual 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-qulūb) by the great Sufi shaykh and Islamic scholar 'Abd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī (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.Comparative theology. Thinking across traditions.MysticismSufismGrammarStudy and teachingLanguage and languagesReligions aspectsChristian Theology.Islamic Theology.Jean Gerson.Literary genre.Medieval theology.Sufism.al-Qushayrī.grammar.ʿAbd al-Karīm.Mysticism.Sufism.GrammarStudy and teaching.Language and languagesReligions aspects.809.93382809.93382Longo F. Dominicauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1618334DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910825046603321Spiritual Grammar3949981UNINA