TY  - BOOK
AU  - Longo,F.Dominic
TI  - Spiritual Grammar: Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity 
T2  - Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
SN  - 9780823276745
U1  - 809.93382 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Medieval Studies
KW  - Theology
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Islamic Theology
KW  - Jean Gerson
KW  - Literary genre
KW  - Medieval theology
KW  - Sufism
KW  - al-Qushayrī
KW  - grammar
KW  - ʿAbd al-Karīm
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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 --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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-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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823276745?locatt=mode:legacy
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