Allah has spoken to us

We must keep silent.' In the folds of secrecy, the Holy Book of the Druze

Bibliographic Data

ID4751980
AuthorsÉléonore Armanet (Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume48
Issue2
Pages183-197
Publication date2018-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0048721x.2017.1386370
OpenAlexW2766845945
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited30

This article explores the cultural dynamics of bond and separateness created around the Book of Wisdom (kitâb əl-ḥikma), the Druze Holy Book. The Text, unrevealable to Druze non-believers or foreigners, is shrouded in a collective pact to ‘keep quiet’. I assert that this alliance aims to protect Druze intimacy rather than highlight their separateness from others. It is rooted in the Druze premise that meaning is both corporeal and feminine, that it pertains to an ineffable interiority. I thereby distance myself from anthropological analyses that consider the so-called Druze secret around the Book as static content solely related to language

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Premise · Reflexive pronoun · Secrecy · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy

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