<em>Tarfīq </em>versus <em> Tazyīq </em> On a Rare Sufi Term in Ibn Baṭṭūṭā and Jewish-Muslim Interactions in Medieval Egypt
The present paper focuses on two variant readings (tarfīq vs. tazyīq) of a rare Sufi term employed by Ibn Baṭṭūta (d. 1377) in his famous travelogue (Riḥla) to describe the “head between knees” Sufi practice. Indeed, evidence in support of the reading tazyīq was found by Paul Fenton (1990) in a thir...
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Firenze University Press
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali |
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| Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/1881 |