Rewriting the Text of the Soul

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-205
Author(s):  
Mark Chinca
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Centered Form ◽  
Devotio Moderna

The chapter is about the radically text-centered form of meditation that emerged in and around the Devotio Moderna movement toward the end of the fourteenth century. In working with written text, adherents of the movement believed they were simultaneously working on their souls, especially because these too were believed to resemble a text, susceptible of being rewritten in a new and better order. Schemes for meditation by Florens Radewijns and Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen, two leading exponents of the Devotio Moderna, require their readers to implement them by reproducing in the virtuality of thought one or other of the compositional principles by which the schemes were constituted as texts in the first place. With the Cordiale, seu quatuor novissima, a devotional tract on eschatology written around the same time as the exercises of Radewijns and Zerbolt, readers are similarly exhorted to meditate by transferring the “process” of the text—its unfolding as a rhetorically composed argument—to the process of their reflections on death and the afterlife.

Prologue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Medieval Women ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Research Questions

The Prologue contains an analysis of a fresco in the Palazzo del Podestà in San Gimignano, dating from the beginning of the fourteenth century, and showing a man and a woman reading together, their faces eroded by time. Both in itself and in the context of its cycle, whose meaning is not entirely clear to art historians even today, this image evokes the guiding research questions of the book: the position of ‘woman’ in relation to the discourse of the written text and reading, the documentary ‘inexistence’ of medieval women readers, and their imagined lack of authority and independence. It both posits and challenges the familiar story of medieval misogyny (that a woman poses a threat to intellectual activity), and alerts us to the complexities of the encounter between gender and reading.

The Vocabulary of Revelation: Divine Intent and Self-Disclosure in the Qur'an

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-215
Author(s):  
Asma Afsaruddin
Keyword(s):  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Arabic Word ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Divine Mercy ◽  
Divine Truth

This article explores how the uniqueness of the Qur'anic revelation has been perceived by primarily Sunnī Muslim commentators through time in the context of four main analytical aspects of revelation: (i) revelation as communication between God and humans that links language to divine truth; (ii) revelation as both oral and written text that points to complementary modes of divine discourse; (iii) revelation as purposeful manifestation of divine mercy and justice; and finally (iv) the idea of revelation as beautiful and inimitable text that invites the human recipient to ponder the aesthetics of divine self-disclosure which becomes reflected in Islamic theology as the doctrine of iʿjāz al-Qurʾān. These aspects are indicated by certain key concepts and terms derived from the Qur'anic vocabulary itself and are discussed in detail in order to illuminate the nature of the Qur'anic revelation—as adumbrated within the Qur'an itself and as elaborated upon by its human exegetes. The Arabic word for the phenomenon of revelation is waḥy and is, strictly speaking, applied to the Qur'an alone. In the Qur'an, the term wahy and its derivatives frequently occur with reference to God and His communication with humankind, although exceptions exist. Tanzīl is another Qur'anic lexeme that refers uniquely to God's direct communication with humanity. In the understanding of a number of influential commentators, both these terms also imply linguistic and rhetorical excellence as a component of divine revelation recognisable in all four of the aspects identified here.

A fourteenth century crown

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 431-432
Author(s):  
Amanda Gray
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century

Lokan?ti: Method of Adaption and New Vocabulary

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-114
Author(s):  
Ujjwal Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Adaptation Method

In this paper I have made an attempt to discuss the adaptation method and new vocabulary employed and introduced by the Lokan?ti (Ln). This text was composed in Burma most probably by Catru?gabala around the fourteenth century CE. In premodern Burma Ln was used in monasteries to inculcate guidance on worldly affairs and everyday morality to the Burmese householders in general and to the Buddhist monks in particular.

UNIVERSALITAS KETAUHIDAN TUHAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-403
Author(s):  
Roudhotul Jannah
Keyword(s):  
Oral Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Negotiation Strategy ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
New View ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation

This article is about Angelika Neuwirth’s thought, dialectical of Qur’anic interpretation. She offer new view to understanding of Qur’an’s meaning. Neuwirth encourage to reunderstanding Qur’an post-canonization (a written text) with pre-canonization method (oral communication), as in Surat Al-Ikhlas. Accourding Neuwirth, Surat Al-Ikhlas responded from tradition and civilization of Arabic region earlier. An example أَحَدٌ (Q.112:1) is similiar meaning with “ehad” in Ibrani language. That’s mean usage أَحَدٌ had purpose to negotiation strategy and universality of faith. therefore Islamic religion has mission to combine all ideology of faith become unity universality. Neuwirth encourages to refer to the other holy scripture for adding comprehensive information and objective data.

Integrating E-Reading Into Traditional Classrooms Of Budding Engineers

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 458-462
Author(s):  
SABITHA ◽  
PREM CHANDRIKA
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Traditional Classrooms ◽  
Written Text ◽  
E Learning

The paper focuses on the need of E-Reading and integration of E-Reading into the classrooms with Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES).Computer has the potential to become the amazing teaching tool. Besides the written text the technical way of learning has quality, rhythm, tenor and pitch. These parameters vary as per the moods of the teacher in the traditional classrooms. But in the e-learning there is no mood swings to the inanimate objects like video or audio. So, it is the teachers’ ingenuity to select the suitable e-content to the students and make use of the instruments to the fullest extent for the benefit of the students. The ultimate goal of the teacher is to make the learners as independent readers.

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