Szombathy, Zoltán (2026) Islamic Law and Linguistics Solecisms: A Case of ‘Insulting the Prophet’ in Late 10th/16th-Century West Africa. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 79 (1). pp. 187-201. ISSN 0001-6446
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Abstract
A passage in the West African chronicle Tārīkh al-fattāsh recounts a tenth-/sixteenth-century case of a mosque attendant in Timbuktu having been executed for an absurdly faulty reading of a single word in a celebrated Arabic panegyric on the Prophet, al-Fāzāzī’s ʿIshrīniyyāt . In addition to presenting and analysing this instructive case of unintentional sabb al-rasūl (‘insulting the Prophet’), the essay discusses some of the juridical aspects of the incorrect use of Arabic, especially linguistic considerations affecting the sanctions against blasphemous and insulting utterances.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PI Oriental languages and literatures / keleti nyelvek és irodalmak |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2026 11:36 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2026 11:36 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/236922 |
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