Principles of Ritual Prayer: An 18th Century Catechism in Bahdini Kurdish

This article presents an edition and linguistic analysis of a verse catechism in the Bahdini dialect of Kurdish. The manuscript of the text is dated to late 18th century and is held among the Oriental manuscripts collections of the Berlin State Library. The text is a didactic verse on the principles...

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Published in:Oriente moderno
Main Author: Öpengin, Ergin 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Oriente moderno
Further subjects:B Kurdish dialectology
B Manuscript
B Catechism
B Bahdini Kurdish
B ritual prayer
B Early Modern Kurdish
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Summary:This article presents an edition and linguistic analysis of a verse catechism in the Bahdini dialect of Kurdish. The manuscript of the text is dated to late 18th century and is held among the Oriental manuscripts collections of the Berlin State Library. The text is a didactic verse on the principles and rules of the Islamic ritual prayer (ṣalāt), belonging thus to the catechism or in its Turkish-Arabic term ʿilm -i ḥāl genre. It is the oldest example of the catechism genre, different from creeds, in Kurdish literature that started in the late 16th century. The text is edited here within the context of religious treatises in Kurdish and analysed for its historical-linguistic and dialectological aspects that illustrate Early Modern Kurdish.
ISSN:2213-8617
Contains:Enthalten in: Oriente moderno
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22138617-12340317