Fear and learning in medieval Islam: Dread as an affective marker of the scholarly class
In this article I argue that a specific experience of fear was adopted by the Islamic scholarly class (ulema) from the mid-tenth century onwards as an affective descriptor of their profession. This fear - khashya, which I translate here as "dread" - appears in the Qur’an as an apprehensive...
| Published in: | Body and religion |
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| Subtitles: | Special Issue: The Qur'an and affect |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Equinox Publishing
[2019]
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| In: |
Body and religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Fear of God
/ Ulama
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
Medieval Islam
B Fear B ādāb B Piety B Ulama |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |