Spiritual Grammar: Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity

by F Dominic Longo

Book Overview

Literary analysis and theological interpretation of Catholic, University of Paris chancellor Jean Gerson's (d. 1429) Donatus moralizatus and Muslim, Sufi scholar ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī's (d. 1072) Naḥw al-qulūb. Argues that the genre of these two religious texts aims to engender saintly readers and uses grammar as metaphor for spiritual realities.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823283690
• ISBN13: 9780823283699
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"