Golden Mean and Enabling

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_654
dc.title	Golden Mean and Enabling. Some Comments on Selected Arabic and Islamic Contemporary Sources
dc.contributor.author	Zilio Grandi Ida
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2017/1/medieta-e-facilitazione/
dc.description.abstract	Islamic culture, from its earliest foundational texts, has demonstrated an aversion to all forms of excess, going hand in hand with an appreciation of the Golden Mean. This latter concept has recently come to occupy a central place in the concerns of scholars and commentators of the Islamic and of the Western world. The present paper aims at making its own small contribution to the issue, examining the work of two major symposia held in the Saudi cities of Mecca (2003) and Riyadh (2004) in response to the events of 9/11: we will attempt to highlight the relationship linking the Koranic ideal of wasaṭiyya or the Golden Mean with the concepts of facilitating and enabling (yusr, taysīr).
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 53 \| June 2017
dc.issued	2017-06-20
dc.dateAccepted	2017-03-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-11-10
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2385-3042/AnnOr-53-17-1
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Golden Mean
dc.subject	Golden Mean
dc.subject	Islam
dc.subject	Islam
dc.subject	Salafism
dc.subject	Salafism
dc.subject	Tolerance
dc.subject	Tolerance
dc.subject	Wasaṭiyya
dc.subject	Wasaṭiyya

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Some Comments on Selected Arabic and Islamic Contemporary Sources

Ida Zilio Grandi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

Islamic culture, from its earliest foundational texts, has demonstrated an aversion to all forms of excess, going hand in hand with an appreciation of the Golden Mean. This latter concept has recently come to occupy a central place in the concerns of scholars and commentators of the Islamic and of the Western world. The present paper aims at making its own small contribution to the issue, examining the work of two major symposia held in the Saudi cities of Mecca (2003) and Riyadh (2004) in response to the events of 9/11: we will attempt to highlight the relationship linking the Koranic ideal of wasaṭiyya or the Golden Mean with the concepts of facilitating and enabling (yusr, taysīr).

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June 20, 2017

Accepted

March 7, 2017

Submitted

Nov. 10, 2016

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Keywords: Salafism • Wasaṭiyya • Golden Mean • Tolerance • Islam

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