The Rediscovery of Samuel Lyde's Lost Nuṣayrī Kitāb al-Mashyakha (Manual for Shaykhs)
| Autor: | Bella Tendler Krieger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 24:1-16 |
| ISSN: | 2051-2066 0035-869X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s135618631300059x |
| Popis: | TheK. al-Mashyakhais a manual for Nuṣayrī shaykhs. Its significance as a window into the otherwise secret world of Nuṣayrī ritual was augmented by the role it played in the formation of Nuṣayrī studies: in 1860, it served as the basis for the first monograph on the Nuṣayrī religion, Samuel Lyde's posthumously publishedAsian Mystery. However, for over 150 years, the K. al-Mashyakha has been missing. This article announces its rediscovery in two identical manuscripts and identifies two additional works based on this text, the well-known Nuṣayrī catechism, K. Taʿlīm diyānat al-nuṣayriyya, and the recently publishedK. al-Mashyakhaissued by the Lebanese press, Dār li-ajl al-maʿrifa. In solving the mystery of its disappearance and rediscovery in two copies, this article provides new insight into the nineteenth-century Nuṣayrī world from which theK. al-Mashyakhaemerged, as well as that of the European orientalists who pioneered this field. |
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