This article investigates the role and values of narrative literature within the Islamic cultural context, by establishing the relationship between Arabic and Persian texts with their correspondents in other coeval literatures, from the Greek and Latin to the Sanskrit one, from the Syriac, Armenian, Hebrew, to the European vernacular ones, and to the Turkish or Malesian ones, and beyond. In doing so, the article identifies a ‘common Eurasian library’ around some main narrative cycles (the Alexander Romance, the Book of Kalila and Dimna, the Book of Sindbad, the Barlaam and Josaphat, and the Thousand and One Nights) and some main themes, such as the education of princes, the dialectic between power and wisdom, the scientific transmission, the therapeutic and cosmographic functions of storytelling.
L’articolo indaga il valore della letteratura narrativa nel contesto culturale islamico, mettendo in relazione i testi arabi e persiani con i corrispondenti testi di altre letterature coeve, da quelle greca e latina a quella sanscrita, dalla siriaca, armena, ebraica, fino alle volgari europee, a quella turca e malese, e oltre, individuando una ‘biblioteca eurasiatica comune’ intorno ad alcuni cicli narrativi principali (il Romanzo di Alessandro, il Libro di Calila e Dimna, il Libro di Sindbād, il Barlaam e Josaphat, le Mille e una Notte) e alcuni principali temi, quali l’educazione dei principi, la dialettica tra potere e sapienza, la trasmissione scientifica, la funzione terapeutica e quella cosmografica del raccontare.
Percorsi tematici nel viaggio euro-asiatico dei testi / Casari, Mario. - STAMPA. - (2003), pp. 459-498.
Percorsi tematici nel viaggio euro-asiatico dei testi
CASARI, MARIO
2003
Abstract
This article investigates the role and values of narrative literature within the Islamic cultural context, by establishing the relationship between Arabic and Persian texts with their correspondents in other coeval literatures, from the Greek and Latin to the Sanskrit one, from the Syriac, Armenian, Hebrew, to the European vernacular ones, and to the Turkish or Malesian ones, and beyond. In doing so, the article identifies a ‘common Eurasian library’ around some main narrative cycles (the Alexander Romance, the Book of Kalila and Dimna, the Book of Sindbad, the Barlaam and Josaphat, and the Thousand and One Nights) and some main themes, such as the education of princes, the dialectic between power and wisdom, the scientific transmission, the therapeutic and cosmographic functions of storytelling.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.