{"product_id":"spiritual-grammar-genre-and-the-saintly-subject-in-islam-and-christianity","title":"Spiritual Grammar: Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eF. Dominic Longo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e9780823283699\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpiritual Grammar identifies a genre of religious literature that until now has not been recognized as such. In this surprising and theoretically nuanced study, F. Dominic Longo reveals how grammatical structures of language addressed in two medieval texts published nearly four centuries apart, from distinct religious traditions, offer a metaphor for how the self is embedded in spiritual reality. Reading The Grammar of Hearts (Nahw al-qulūb) by the great Sufi shaykh and Islamic scholar ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī (d. 1074) and Moralized Grammar (Donatus moralizatus) by Christian theologian Jean Gerson (d. 1429), Longo reveals how both authors use the rules of language and syntax to advance their pastoral goals. Indeed, grammar provides the two masters with a fresh way of explaining spiritual reality to their pupils and to discipline the souls of their readers in the hopes that their writings would make others adept in the grammar of the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Genre Trouble: Queering Grammar for Spiritual Purposes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Arabic, Latin, and the Discipline of Grammar in the Worlds of Qushayrī and Gerson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Genres and Genders of Gerson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Gerson’s “Moralized” Primer of Spiritual Grammar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 From the Names of God to the Grammar of Hearts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Forming Spiritual Fuṣaḥāʾ: Qushayrī’s Advanced Grammar of Hearts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 The Fruits of Comparison: Constructing a Theology of Grammar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Translation of Jean Gerson’s Moralized Gramma\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39718001246243,"sku":"9780823283699","price":39.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/products\/DSC_0683.jpg?v=1661230734","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/spiritual-grammar-genre-and-the-saintly-subject-in-islam-and-christianity","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}