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Title:Nafas : breath ontology in Rumi’s poetry
Authors:ID Rashid, Zahra (Author)
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Language:English
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Organization:Logo ZRS Koper - Science and Research Centre Koper
Abstract:For the sake of a respiratory philosophy, it makes sense to look to the East, since many Eastern traditions such as Sufism include breathwork in their so-matic practices. In my paper, I aim to show how Rumi – a 13th century Muslim theologian and Sufi – used breath or nafas in his Persian poetry to outline how breathing is an originary phenomenon. My paper will take a few samples of his poetry to demonstrate how breath connotes a newness through the “gift” of life that it endows upon us, and how the creative, endowing, and primal nature of breath is linked to an openness to the Divine other and to others. Furthermore, for Rumi, every passing breath ushers in a new existence, annihilating its older form and thus creating an ontological sense in the reader of both the finiteness of existence through what has passed and the infinite possibilities it holds when the newness arrives. Bridging the finite and infinite through breath enables us to develop a respiratory ontology that aims to conceive of dualities through an inter-related perspective. This, I wish to argue, is the true promise of Rumi’s poetry for a philosophy of breathing
Keywords:Rumi, Sufism, breathwork, Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty, embodied philosophy
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:20.12.2023
Year of publishing:2023
Number of pages:str. 121-141
Numbering:Letn. 28, št. 111/112
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-18927 New window
UDC:2:14
ISSN on article:1318-8828
DOI:10.35469/poligrafi.2023.400 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:195349251 New window
Copyright:The Authors
Publication date in DiRROS:14.05.2024
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Title:Poligrafi : revija za religiologijo, mitologijo in filozofijo
Shortened title:Poligrafi
Publisher:Nova revija, Društvo za primerjalno religiologijo, Nova revija, Društvo za primerjalno religiologijo, Univerza na Primorskem, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Univerzitetna založba Annales, Društvo za primerjalno religiologijo, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Annales ZRS, Društvo za primerjalno religiologijo
ISSN:1318-8828
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Nafas: Ontologija diha v Rumijevi poeziji
Abstract:Pri utemeljevanju respiratorne filozofije se je smiselno ozreti na vzhod, saj šte-vilne vzhodne tradicije, med njimi sufizem, vključujejo dihanje v svoje somatske prakse. V prispevku je prikazano, kako je Rumi ‒ muslimanski teolog in sufi iz 13. stoletja ‒ v svoji poeziji uporabljal nafas oziroma dih na način, ki je poudarjal nje-govo prvobitnost. Na odlomkih iz Rumijeve poezije avtorica ponazori, kako dih implicira novo z »darom« življenja, ki nam ga prinaša, in kako je ta ustvarjalna, podarjajoča in prvobitna narava diha povezana z odprtostjo Božanskemu Druge-mu in drugim. Poleg tega za Rumija vsak vdih pomeni začetek novega obstoja, ki izniči svojo predhodno obliko, s čimer bralcu posreduje ontološki občutek konč-nosti obstoja preko tega, kar je minilo, in neskončnih možnosti, ki jih novo pri-naša. Zbliževanje končnega z neskončnim v dihu omogoča razvijanje respiratorne ontologije, katere cilj je razumevanje dualnosti v medsebojno povezani perspektivi. Prav to pa je po avtoričinem mnenju obet Rumijeve poezije za filozofijo dihanja.
Keywords:Rumi, sufizem, prakse dihanja, Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty, utelešena filozofija


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