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medieval worlds • no. 18 • 2023




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"medieval worlds" provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. We focus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodization.
medieval worlds is open to submissions of broadly comparative studies and matters of global interest, whether in single articles, companion papers, smaller clusters, or special issues on a subject of global/comparative history. We particularly invite studies of wide-ranging connectivity or comparison between different world regions.

Apart from research articles, medieval worlds publishes ongoing debates and project and conference reports on comparative medieval research.


In this volume we introduce the debate as a new format in Medieval Worlds. Scholars are invited to contribute to current topics of interest either with an essay or with comments to this essay. The series is opened with a lively discussion of the concept of “state” in medieval studies and offers contributions by B. D. Shaw, N. Di Cosmo, S. Gasparri and C. La Rocca, H.-W. Goetz, J. Haldon, Y. Stouraitis and R. Le Jan. M. Wiesinger, C. Jackel and N. Orban discuss first results of their ground-breaking ERC project Arithmetic, in which German mathematical treatises from the Late Middle Ages are studied. The second stand-alone contribution by A. Wareham compares English and Chinese sources with regard to peacemaking around the turn of the 11th century. The second instalment of our thematic section on Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East (guest editor N.P. Gibson) presents further studies on textual evidence of “other” (religions) as well as insights into possible uses of digital tools in this context.

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Walter POHL – Andre GINGRICH (Eds.) - Nathan P. Gibson (Guest Ed.)


medieval worlds • no. 18 • 2023




ISSN 2412-3196
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Abstract:
This paper looks at the cosmological texts of the eminent Sufi al-Ḥusayn b. Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj (d. 309 AH/922 CE) through the prism of pseudo-Empedocles’s influence. The medieval scholar Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Daylamī was the first to juxtapose pseudo-Empedoclean doctrine and al-Ḥallāj’s passionate love (maḥabba). A connection between the two was postulated by L. Massignon, who reconstructed the line of succession of the Baghdad believers in pseudo-Empedocles’s ideas and assumed a link between the Nestorian monastery of Dayr Qunnā and these ideas. Analysing al-Ḥallāj’s cosmology reveals an influence of some pseudo-Empedoclean ideas as they appear in Arabic sources. Al-Ḥallāj’s fragmentary works and his quotations will be examined by considering some fragments in al-Daylamī’s Kitāb ʿAṭf al-alif, a Persian text from the Sharḥ al-shaṭḥiyāt of Rūzbihān Baqlī, and some fragments from al-Sulamī’s Tafsīr. There are also short cosmological fragments in the Kitāb al-Ṭawāsīn, and some are known from quotations. Several concepts such as azal, khiṭāb (as logos), qudra, dahr, maʿānī, and ṣuwar are encountered in pseudo-Empedocles’s texts. For al-Ḥallāj, the crucial concept in creation is passionate love (ʿishq, maḥabba), which serves as the catalyst for creation. Desire (mashī ̉a) is the first mode of the divine essence. Divine eternity (azal) is opposed to perpetuity (dahr). In al-Ḥallāj’s cosmology we find the concept of secrets (asrār) that resemble maʿānī. But at the same time, they resemble intelligent matter underlying the higher world. The question of two creations in these texts seems to go back to the understanding of the creation of the materia prima (ʿunṣur) and material bodies (the first and second creations). Al-Ḥallāj’s source for these ideas was probably connected with the Nestorian church, and this may go some way toward explaining the links between the Sufis of Baghdad and the Christian milieu in monasteries such as Dayr Qunnā.

Keywords:  al-Ḥallāj, pseudo-Empedocles, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Daylamī, Rūzbihān Baqlī, eternity (azal), passionate love (ʿishq), love (maḥabba), desire (mashī ̉a)
Published Online:  2023/06/30 08:42:08
Document Date:  2023/06/30 10:00:00
Object Identifier:  0xc1aa5572 0x003e5888
Rights:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

"medieval worlds" provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. We focus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodization.
medieval worlds is open to submissions of broadly comparative studies and matters of global interest, whether in single articles, companion papers, smaller clusters, or special issues on a subject of global/comparative history. We particularly invite studies of wide-ranging connectivity or comparison between different world regions.

Apart from research articles, medieval worlds publishes ongoing debates and project and conference reports on comparative medieval research.


In this volume we introduce the debate as a new format in Medieval Worlds. Scholars are invited to contribute to current topics of interest either with an essay or with comments to this essay. The series is opened with a lively discussion of the concept of “state” in medieval studies and offers contributions by B. D. Shaw, N. Di Cosmo, S. Gasparri and C. La Rocca, H.-W. Goetz, J. Haldon, Y. Stouraitis and R. Le Jan. M. Wiesinger, C. Jackel and N. Orban discuss first results of their ground-breaking ERC project Arithmetic, in which German mathematical treatises from the Late Middle Ages are studied. The second stand-alone contribution by A. Wareham compares English and Chinese sources with regard to peacemaking around the turn of the 11th century. The second instalment of our thematic section on Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East (guest editor N.P. Gibson) presents further studies on textual evidence of “other” (religions) as well as insights into possible uses of digital tools in this context.



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