Spatial Expressions of Ascetic Tendencies in the Qurʾan

In this article, I propose viewing the early Qurʾanic movement as an expression of strong ascetic tendencies. More specifically, I suggest seeing aspects of Qurʾanic rhetorics as offering a specifically spatial expression to broader ascetic tendencies that characterized late antiquity as a whole, an...

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Main Author: Mortensen, Mette Bjerregaard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Numen
Year: 2019, Volume: 66, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 499-523
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Axial Age / Koran / Asceticism / Spatial identity
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Sloterdijk
B prophetical prefiguration
B Smith
B Early Islam
B Piety
B Qurʾan
B Bellah
B Asceticism
B hijra / muhājirūn
B spatial imagery
B Axial Age
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