Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale

Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Fascicolo | 59 | 2023
Articolo | Note su ‘Ḏulfaqār dell’Intelletto’ e il manicheismo islamizzante

Note su ‘Ḏulfaqār dell’Intelletto’ e il manicheismo islamizzante

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.


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Presentato: 10 Febbraio 2023 | Accettato: 09 Maggio 2023 | Pubblicato 29 Agosto 2023 | Lingua: it

Keywords Manichaean alphabetLiterature and poetical imageryIslamicate ManichaeismManichaean textsEarly new Persian


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