Religious Experience, Storytelling, and Ethical Action in Muhammad Iqbal’s Javid Nama and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Mariam Khan, Ulrik Wagner
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This article brings Muhammad Iqbal’s Persian book of poetry, Javid Nama, into dialogue with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s drama Nathan the Wise. In conversation with Islam’s early history, narrative traditions, and debates over the status of revelation and reason, both authors, we argue, envision religious truth as an irreducible experience that no single doctrine can lay exclusivist claims to. We demonstrate that intuition, reason, and revelation coexist as different paths toward spiritual insights in their fictional works. In different yet comparable ways, they create a fresh ontological ground for negotiating questions of divine truth and move the searching subject centre stage. Focused on deeds and actions, their reform projects promote an ethical conduct of life and acceptance among different religious groups that could not contrast more profoundly with the political reality in most Islamic countries today.
穆罕默德·伊克巴尔的《贾维德·纳玛》和戈特霍尔德·以法莲·莱辛的《内森》中的宗教经验、讲故事和伦理行为
本文将穆罕默德·伊克巴尔的波斯语诗集《Javid Nama》与戈特霍尔德·Ephraim莱辛的戏剧《智者内森》进行对话。我们认为,在与伊斯兰早期历史、叙事传统的对话中,以及关于启示和理性地位的辩论中,两位作者都把宗教真理想象成一种不可简化的经验,没有任何一种教义可以独享它。在他们的小说作品中,直觉、理性和启示作为通往精神洞见的不同途径共存。他们以不同但又相似的方式,为神圣真理的谈判问题创造了一个新的本体论基础,并将探索的主题移到了舞台的中心。他们的改革项目侧重于行为和行动,促进不同宗教团体之间的道德生活和接受,这与今天大多数伊斯兰国家的政治现实形成了深刻的对比。
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期刊介绍: Literature and Theology, a quarterly peer-review journal, provides a critical non-confessional forum for both textual analysis and theoretical speculation, encouraging explorations of how religion is embedded in culture. Contributions should address questions pertinent to both literary study and theology broadly understood, and be consistent with the Journal"s overall aim: to engage with and reshape traditional discourses within the studies of literature and religion, and their cognate fields - biblical criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, politics, culture studies, gender studies, artistic theory/practice, and contemporary critical theory/practice.
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