ABSTRACT

This paper sheds light on Arabic Sufi prose from the third/ninth to the seventh/thirteenth centuries. It begins with the “Sufi act,” a wide range of conditions that the Sufi embarks upon under the influence of the mystical states in his life, codes of behavior, interactions with others as well as his writing skills and activities. The paper then proposes a general study model for approaching Sufi prose based on its complex links with both the Sufi act and Arabic literary art during early medieval Islam. This model is based on two dominant features. The first captures the spiritual basis of the mystical moment (“texts with lived-experience features”), and the second describes more “rational” attempts to canonize the Sufi experience (“texts with post-experience features”). These features are not strict paradigmatic categories but, rather, indicators to discern the general tone, style and discourse structures that dominates each text.

摘要

本文阐明了第三，第九，第七，第十三世纪的阿拉伯苏菲散文。它始于“苏菲行为”，这是苏菲在其生活中的神秘状态，行为准则，与他人的互动以及他的写作技巧和活动所影响的一系列条件。然后，论文基于苏菲散文与苏菲行为和中世纪伊斯兰早期阿拉伯文学艺术之间的复杂联系，提出了一种研究苏菲散文的一般研究模型。该模型基于两个主要特征。第一个描述了神秘时刻的精神基础（“具有生活经历特征的文本”），第二个描述了使苏菲经历经典化的更多“理性”尝试（“具有后体验特征的文本”）。这些功能不是严格的范式类别，而是