21/05/2024 08:30 - 16:30

HALL: MARIONETTE - TEATRO

Proponent: Boudjellal N.

Chair: Ali M., Koralija S.

Speaker: Byrski L., El Hawary A., Jasnos R., Koralija S., Kostelnik J., Mennah A., Mrozek A., Tawfik K., Trad K.

The Abrahamic religions are based on sacred texts which may be composed in a single language containing words of foreign origin (Koran), in several different languages (Old Testament) or which are the translation of statements and stories (Gospels). These languages, considered sacred by virtue of their liturgical use, can be closely related to one another. There are many reasons for this: belonging to the same linguistic family and sharing certain extralinguistic characteristics, such as the relationship to numbers, linguistic borrowings from one language to another, and a common religious and mythological heritage. This panel will explore the contacts and points of rupture in the linguistic expression of the sacred in the different religious traditions of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Papers may address the following questions:
- The relationship between Christian mysticism, Sufism, Shi'ism and the Kabbalah.
- The composition of sacred and religious texts and their rhetorical aspects. 
- Continuity and rupture in magical practices.
- Arithmologia, isopsephy and pythagoreanism.
- Greek philosophical heritage and the linguistic question.
- The legacy of ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian religions in medieval and contemporary religious practices.
- Linguistic relations in the Middle East between majority and minority religions (Zoroastrianism, Mandaeism, Yezidism, Bahaism...)



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