The Rose of Muḥammad, the Fragrance of Christ: Liminal Poetics in Medieval Anatolia
Although scent has played a diminished role in modern Western societies, it communicated a wide array of meanings to Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Anatolia. This study examines the ubiquitous presence of fragrance in Persian and Armenian poetry, particularly in the works of Jalāl al-Dīn...
| Published in: | Medieval encounters |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Medieval encounters
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ǧalāl-ad-Dīn Rūmī 1207-1273
/ Persian language
/ Islam
/ Religious literature
/ Smell
/ Kostandin, Erznkac'i 1250-1320
/ Middle Armenian
/ Christian literature
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam CB Christian life; spirituality CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Kostandin Erznkatsʿi
B Medieval Anatolia B fragrance B Comparative Literature B Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī B Persian B Poetics B Muslim-Christian interaction B Middle Armenian |
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| Summary: | Although scent has played a diminished role in modern Western societies, it communicated a wide array of meanings to Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Anatolia. This study examines the ubiquitous presence of fragrance in Persian and Armenian poetry, particularly in the works of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 1273), his son Sulṭān Walad (d. 1312), and Kostandin Erznkatsʿi (fl. late thirteenth-early fourteenth cen.), a Christian Armenian poet of Erzincan. For these and other poets, olfaction served as a rich heuristic for sensing the divine essence in many contexts: in everyday customs, such as washing with rose water or the preparation of sherbet; in devotional practices, such as burning incense or receiving communion; and finally in the instruction of poetry itself. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0674 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Medieval encounters
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700674-12340073 |