Hurufiyya as a Teaching and Identity

• Název práce v češtině: Hurúfíja jako učení a identita
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Hurufiyya as a Teaching and Identity
• Klíčová slova: Hurúfija|náboženská identita|islámská pluralita|genealogie náboženských směrů
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Hurufiyya|Religious identity|Islamic plurality|Genealogies of religions
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2023/2024
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Katedra Blízkého východu (21-KBV)
• Vedoucí / školitel: Mgr. Jakub Koláček
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 27.11.2023
• Datum zadání: 04.12.2023
• Schválení administrátorem: bylo schváleno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 05.12.2023
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 17.06.2024 12:30
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 03.05.2024
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 17.06.2024
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná
• Oponenti: Mgr. Pavel Ťupek, Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

The bachelor thesis will focus on the question of Hurufiyya as an identity throughout history, specifically from its emergence at the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries until the twentieth century. The Hurufiyya, an idiosyncratic religious doctrine working with the meanings and numerical values of the letters of the Arabic and Persian alphabets, understanding itself as the ultimate realisation of the Islamic religion, is a topic that has received relatively little attention in academic literature. Although at the time of its emergence, the Hurufiyya was a distinct current, today we encounter this teaching only within certain groups belonging to the wider world of Islam, such as the Alevis or the Bektashis. The thesis will thus attempt to answer the following questions: Does the Hurufiyya manifest itself more as a teaching and doctrine, or as a specific circumscribed identity within Islam? How, if at all, have these two possibilities been exercised throughout history? The thesis will seek to answer this question by working with primary sources (the canonical poems of the poet Nasimi available in the original languages as well as translated to English and Italian, selected texts translated to English by the founder of the doctrine, Fazlallah Astarabadi, both available in physical and electronic form) and secondary literature. Theoretically, it will draw on existing applications of the concept of identity to the study of religion and, among others by Benedict Anderson.

Seznam odborné literatury

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