Ines Peta
Articles and Reviews Published for La rivista di Arablit
Razionalità e religione: dalla diatriba tra Faraḥ Anṭūn e lo šayḫ Muḥammad ‘Abduh alla mediazione di Aḥmad Amīn
Articolo della rivista, Anno XIV, numero 28, dicembre 2024
The debate between Faraḥ Anṭūn (1874-1922) and the šayḫ Muḥammad ‘Abduh (1849-1905) in 1902 highlighted two different conceptions of religion – specifically Christianity and Islam – and their relationship to science, along with the political implications stemming from these views. In this contribution I analyse how Aḥmad Amīn raises the [...]
Il lessico sufi nel romanzo Mawt ṣaġīr di Muḥammad Ḥasan ʿAlwān
Articolo della rivista, Anno XI, numeri 21-22, giugno-dicembre 2021
The novel Mawt ṣaġīr (A Small Death) by the Saudi writer Muḥammad Ḥasan ʿAlwān, winner of the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, illustrates the double dimension, external (ẓāhir) and internal (bāṭin), of Ibn ʿArabī’s travels through a geographical and intimate space. Using at the same time a specialized Sufi lexicon and a language understandable to [...]
