Overview
- Compares English and Arabic contemplative texts
- Contributes to furthering an interfaith dialogue between medieval Islam and Christianity
- Engages with history of emotions criticism and theory
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c. 1110-1250, contributing to the emerging interest in ‘globalization’ in medieval studies. A.S.Lazikani argues for the necessity of placing medieval English devotional texts in a more global context and seeks to modify influential narratives on the ‘history of emotions’ to enable this more wide-ranging critical outlook. Across eight chapters, the book examines the dialogic encounters generated by comparative readings of Muhyddin Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240), ‘Umar Ibn al-Fārid (1181-1235), Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtarī (d. 1269), Ancrene Wisse (c. 1225), and the Wooing Group (c. 1225). Investigating the two-fold ‘paradigms of love’ in the figure of Jesus and in the image of the heart, the (dis)embodied language of affect, and the affective semiotics of absence and secrecy, Lazikani demonstrates an interconnection between thereligious traditions of early Christianity and Islam.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
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Paradigms of Love
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Embodied Affect
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Conclusions
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Reviews
“Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts illustrates the interconnectedness between the religious traditions of early Christianity and Islam and proposes new lines of inquiry that often bypass the constraints of literary geography and chronology. … The book would also benefit from a glossary of critical terms for the Christian and Middle English texts, and also of terms unfamiliar to those new to the study of Islamic mystical texts.” (Adriano Duque, Speculum, Vol. 99 (4), October, 2024)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
A.S. Lazikani is Lecturer at the University of Oxford, UK. She specializes in devotional writing of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, working especially in the history of emotions. Her publications include, among many articles, the book Cultivating the Heart: Feeling and Emotion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Religious Texts (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250
Book Subtitle: Cry of the Turtledove
Authors: A. S. Lazikani
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59924-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59923-2Published: 08 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59926-3Published: 09 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59924-9Published: 07 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 271
Topics: Medieval Literature, Comparative Literature, Medieval Philosophy, Middle Eastern Literature, Islam, Christianity