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Is Prose Poetry a Conspiracy Against the Noble Qur'an? Poetics, Humans, and God in Contemporary Egypt

Ist Prosadichtung eine Verschwörung gegen den heiligen Koran? Poetik, Menschen und Gott im zeitgenössischen Ägypten
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Schielke, Samuli

Abstract

There is a peculiar relationship between contemporary poetry and perspectives that are deemed to be heretical by conservative audiences. This relationship is not fully accounted for by current anthropological theories of the secular. The field of literature has been successfully studied as a secular... mehr

There is a peculiar relationship between contemporary poetry and perspectives that are deemed to be heretical by conservative audiences. This relationship is not fully accounted for by current anthropological theories of the secular. The field of literature has been successfully studied as a secular institution – both in the sense of the differentiation of institutions as well as in the sense of the subordination of the religious to the political. Such secularity appears as a rather safe, less controversial way to claim the power of some human entities in relation to God. Some poetry, by contrast, may be accused of heresy or unbelief even when written with pious intention. This suggests a dimension to being secular that is more offensive to conservative societal sensibilities, as it contrasts with deeply-held views on the proper form of the God-human relationship and the associated imaginaries, languages, and aesthetics. Based on a combination of ethnographic research in historical context and a theoretical focus on aesthetics and imagination of divine power as a constituent of human lives, it is proposed in this article that in addition to looking at state power, institutions, and the creation of a secular aesthetic normality, it is also necessary to look more closely at issues of faith, including heretical faith.... weniger

Thesaurusschlagwörter
Religionskritik; Ketzer; Koran; Säkularisierung; Ethnographie; Ethik; Islam; Belletristik; Ägypten; Spiritualität; Glaube; politische Macht; Ästhetik; Gegenwart

Klassifikation
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie

Freie Schlagwörter
Poetry; literature; secularism; heresy

Sprache Dokument
Englisch

Publikationsjahr
2019

Seitenangabe
S. 101-126

Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 44 (2019) 3

Heftthema
Islamicate Secularities in Past and Present

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0


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