Sawirus Ibn Al.Muqafa': The Cure of Sorrows

Daga Portillo, Rocio (2024): Sawirus Ibn Al.Muqafa': The Cure of Sorrows. In: Parole de l´Orient, Bd. 50: S. 17-44

Abstract

The work Ṭibb follows the path of the Greek philosophical genre of consolation. This genre was introduced in Arabic by al-Kindī, how-ever, Sāwīrus may know it as well from the Greek tradition and the Church Fathers. Sāwīrus critizes Mani’s idea that sadness had been created by Satan or a lesser god. According to Sāwīrus, sorrows and sadness have their origin in sin and worldly desires. Only through a reason centered in revelation, that demands worldy renunciation, sadness and sorrows can be overcome. Thus, he brings closer the philosophical thought to the ascetic and mystic under-standing of sorrows. The philosophical way of life proposed by philosophers was reframed and conceived as an ascetic way of life anchored in revelation.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Keywords: Sawirus b. al-Muqaffa; Cure of sorrows; Gnosticism; Monasticism
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde > Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten ; Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde > Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten > Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 200 Religion > 270 Geschichte des Christentums ; 200 Religion > 280 Christliche Konfessionen
• ISSN: 2662-8309
• Sprache: Englisch