Home > Catalogue > Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale > 59 | 2023 > Notes on ‘Ḏulfaqār of the Intellect’ and Islamising Manichaeism

Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale | Vol. 59 | June 2023

« previous article | next article »
cover
cover
Research Article

Notes on ‘Ḏulfaqār of the Intellect’ and Islamising Manichaeism

Andrea Piras    

VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF

abstract

The present essay aims at elucidating the imagery of the New Persian fragment in Manichaean script M 786, dealing with the lament of the Anima Viva entrapped in the material world. The poetical text is a remarkable sample of the Manichaean language and its strategy of literary concealing, by means of Islamic and Crypto-Manichaean mixed expressions, such as the ‘Ḏulfaqār of Intellect’, which is related (I suggest) to the Living Spirit. Within this fragment, a series of funerary terminologies have also been employed, denoting the captivity of the Soul into the Matter, to describe the pain of the human existence and the yearning for salvation, provided by the gods.

Published
Aug. 29, 2023
Accepted
May 9, 2023
Submitted
Feb. 10, 2023
Language
IT

Keywords: Early new Persian • Manichaean texts • Islamicate Manichaeism • Literature and poetical imagery • Manichaean alphabet

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/007

Copyright: © 2023 Andrea Piras. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.