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Seminal Sufism in Motion: The Oldest Extant Arabic Encyclopedia of Islamic Mysticism and its Dissemination

Descrizione del progetto

Fare luce sul misticismo islamico

In un’Europa alle prese con dinamiche multiculturali e multiconfessionali, comprendere le sfumature del misticismo islamico è importante. Eppure, l’accesso ai testi antichi che si addentrano in queste profondità rappresenta una sfida. La ricchezza delle prime fonti sufi rimane oscurata dalle barriere linguistiche, dalla distanza storica e dai divari culturali. Sostenuto dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA), il progetto SEMENSUF esplora l’intersezione tra filologia, storia intellettuale e scienze umane digitali. È dedicato a svelare i segreti della più antica enciclopedia ancora esistente del misticismo islamico: il «Libro dei lumi» di Abū Nasr al-Sarrāj. Al di là del mondo accademico, SEMENSUF immagina un impatto più ampio sulle società europee, favorendo l’inclusività e il dialogo tramite la spiritualità condivisa del misticismo.

Obiettivo

SEMENSUF is an interdisciplinary and collaborative project at the crossroads of philology, intellectual history, and material culture that adopts basic tools of digital humanities for Arabic literary and religious studies. It aims at providing an open-access scholarly edition and lucid, knowledge-sharing English annotated translation of the oldest extant encyclopaedia of Islamic Mysticism, the Book of Flashes in Sufism by Abū Nasr al-Sarrāj (d. 988). Through its innovative method, SEMENSUF aims at laying the foundations for a new historical and textual approach to the editing of early Sufi sources: the philological atomization of the work in textual units, the study of the manuscript transmission and material culture, and the digitization of later related sources are critical for shedding light on channels of knowledge transmission, centers of learning, and scholarly networks in early Sufism and more broadly in Islamic culture.
SEMENSUF strongly believes that editing and translating a 1000-year-old work of mysticism can have a major impact on European multicultural and multifaith societies. In fact, the Book of Flashes tackles several intra- and extra Islamic issues that are still very much relevant to today’s Europe: it highlights how mysticism is and should be considered a genuinely component of Islam, invalidating most contemporary Neo-Salafi claims to the contrary; more importantly, the Book of Flashes reflects a strong concern for and appraisal of heterogeneity and pluralism within Islam. It is a hymn to diversity and to coexistence of different practices and sensibilities which collaborate rather than compete, resulting in a shared spirituality. SEMENSUF thus aims at having an impact on European pluralistic society by making available, to a wide audience, a universal text which will stimulate a reflection on mysticism as a safe space for intercultural and interfaith pluralism, dialogue, and inclusivity.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.

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Coordinatore

UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 254 979,84
Indirizzo
LARGO GEMELLI 1
20123 Milano
Italia

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Regione
Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
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