Self and Secrecy in Early Islam
Series: Studies in Comparative Religion;
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Product details:
- Publisher The University of South Carolina Press
- Date of Publication 30 September 2008
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781570037542
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 231x149x22 mm
- Weight 425 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Illustrations 0
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Short description:
Presents an inquiry into the meanings of concealment and revelation in early Arabo-Islamic texts. This book presents a comparative analysis of the significance of keeping and revealing secrets in early Islamic culture. It draws from a broad range of Arabo-Islamic texts to map interconnections between concepts of secrecy and identity.
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"This book presents an original inquiry into the meanings of concealment and revelation in early Arabo-Islamic texts. In this comparative analysis of the significance of keeping and revealing secrets in early Islamic culture, Ruqayya Yasmine Khan draws from a broad range of Arabo-Islamic texts to map interconnections between concepts of secrecy and identity. In early Islamic discourse, Khan maintains, individual identity is integrally linked to a psychology of secrecy and revelation - a connection of even greater importance than what is being concealed or displayed. Khan further maintains that secrecy and identity demarcate boundaries for interpersonal relations when governed by the cultural norms of discretion espoused in these texts.As evidence for her study, Khan explores religious and literary representations of secrecy in classical texts as diverse as the Qur'an, the """"Book of Concealing the Secret and Holding the Tongue"""" by al-Jahiz, and courtly love poems, including the story of Majnun and Layla. These works represent divergent approaches to spiritual, ethical, and romantic life in early Islam; yet Khan extrapolates from each a shared construction of secrecy and revelation.In advancing our understanding of the dynamic tensions between secrecy and revelation as depicted in these early Arabo-Islamic discourses, Khan illustrates that the creation of individual identity and subjectivity was inherently tied to these same tensions. The resulting analysis opens new vistas for understanding the meanings of secrecy in Islamic studies, Qur'anic studies, Islamic philosophy and mysticism, and Arabic literary studies as well as European intellectual history."
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