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Le corps et le sacré en Orient musulman

Le corps et le sacré en Orient musulman Literatur/Book Reviews / Die Welt des Islams 51 (2011) 109-144 129 Le corps et le sacré en Orient musulman . By Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen & Bernard Heyberger (eds.). Special issue of the Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 113-114, Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 2007. 381 pp., ISBN 978-2-7449-624-4. Quite quickly and carefully edited, this collective volume is the proceedings of a conference held in Paris on June 12-13 th , 2003. Reading successively the fifteen articles here presented—without, however, following exactly their grouping into four sections—the present review attempts to deduce a typology of the relationship between the body and the sacred in the Islamic Orient 1 . e first two papers (“Le corps du Prophète”, pp. 37-57; “Le corps du saint dans l’hagiographie du Maghreb médiéval”, pp. 59-89), authored respectively by Denis Gril and Nelly Amri, survey the modes of exemplary bodies, that of the Prophet and that of the Saint. Both the Sunna and the hagiographical tradition display a range of features, related to physical appearance and intimate or public behaviours, which prove to be God’s testimonies addressed to believers. While Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek (“La maîtrise du corps d’après les manuels de soufisme (Xe-XIVe siècles)”, pp. 91-107) draws http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Die Welt des Islams Brill

Le corps et le sacré en Orient musulman

Die Welt des Islams , Volume 51 (1): 129 – Jan 1, 2011

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Brill
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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0043-2539
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1570-0607
DOI
10.1163/157006008X313899
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Literatur/Book Reviews / Die Welt des Islams 51 (2011) 109-144 129 Le corps et le sacré en Orient musulman . By Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen & Bernard Heyberger (eds.). Special issue of the Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 113-114, Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 2007. 381 pp., ISBN 978-2-7449-624-4. Quite quickly and carefully edited, this collective volume is the proceedings of a conference held in Paris on June 12-13 th , 2003. Reading successively the fifteen articles here presented—without, however, following exactly their grouping into four sections—the present review attempts to deduce a typology of the relationship between the body and the sacred in the Islamic Orient 1 . e first two papers (“Le corps du Prophète”, pp. 37-57; “Le corps du saint dans l’hagiographie du Maghreb médiéval”, pp. 59-89), authored respectively by Denis Gril and Nelly Amri, survey the modes of exemplary bodies, that of the Prophet and that of the Saint. Both the Sunna and the hagiographical tradition display a range of features, related to physical appearance and intimate or public behaviours, which prove to be God’s testimonies addressed to believers. While Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek (“La maîtrise du corps d’après les manuels de soufisme (Xe-XIVe siècles)”, pp. 91-107) draws

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Published: Jan 1, 2011

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