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- Title
THE USE OF NAFS ‘SOUL’ FOR SELF-REFERENCING IN AL-MAQQARĪ’S NAFḤ AL-ṬĪB AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE ‘DIVIDED SELF’.
- Authors
JREIS-NAVARRO, LAILA M.
- Abstract
This article will analyze the use of the noun nafs ‘soul’ with the firstperson possessive pronominal suffix, through the corpus of Andalusi texts gathered in Nafḥ al-ṭīb by the North-African author Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqqarī (d. 1632). The aim is threefold: one, to identify patterns of the use of nafsī in the Nafḥ, their semantic performance, and diachronic evolution; two, to compare the use of the term in this corpus with its use in lists of collocates in the macro corpora KSUCCA and arTenTen of Classical and Modern Standard Arabic; and three, to show that linguistically systematizing self-expression is adequate for the identification of highly subjective texts in a corpus. Analysis will show that the notions of the ‘divided self’, sacrificing oneself, and yearning change towards a closer relationship between the subject and the self over time.
- Subjects
SEMITIC languages; NOUNS; PRONOMINALS (Grammar); CORPORA; ARABIC language
- Publication
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2024, Vol 69, Issue 2, p777
- ISSN
0022-4480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jss/fgad044