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Genesis of the Hero Character in Four Narratives of Attar's Hagiography [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2011
This study examines Attar’s hagiography from the perspective of characterization and genesis of hero character. Further, it selects four narratives as samples of this text (Ibrahim Adham, Hassan Basari, Bayazid Bastami, and Hallaj) from one of the best ...
mohamadreza hajaghababaei
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A man united with God: An interpretation of Theodosius hagiography of St. Peter Koriski [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2016
The story about a man who insulate himself in the desert, he chose suffering and starvation, and who won demons even outside himself as well as inside himself, devoting only a single goal, love towards God.
Kostić Dragomir J.
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History, hagiography, romance…

open access: yesMedievalista, 2023
Athelstan’s reputation and accomplishments as the king credited with being the first to rule over all of England led to his being celebrated in the Middle Ages in art, coinage, romance, travel narratives, and chronicles.
Lisa M. Ruch
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Omitting regulations on alienation, repentance, lament and contemplation in the final lessons of the first chapter of St. Sava’s Studenica Typikon [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2018
St. Sava wrote the benefactor’s hagiography of St. Simeon as the first chapter (letter) of the Studenica Typikon. He used Theodore the Studite’s The Small Catechesis 56 as the epilogue of biography which is according to the established rule read
Rakićević Tihon, Arhimandrit   +2 more
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Reconsidering the “Popular View” (俗覧 zokuran): Tracing Vernacular Precedents in a Modern Illustrated Hagiography of Kakuban 覺鑁 (1095–1143)

open access: yesArts, 2023
As a supplement to sermonizing, the use of images has been crucial to growing the lay Buddhist following in Japan since at least the tenth century. While it may be the case that Buddhist images, much more so than texts, have historically been better able
Matthew Hayes
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Tradisi Hagiografi Sufi Yasawî: Relasi Tasawuf dan Politik

open access: yesIslamica: Jurnal Studi Keislaman, 2014
Every method and approach in Islamic Studies currently available to us has weaknesses in looking at religious data. For that reason, efforts to find better and more integrative method are needed.
Asmawi Asmawi
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Demons in him and outside of him: Final victory: Literary and psychological views on the character of Saint Peter of Kornisha in 'Teodosijevo Žitije' [PDF]

open access: yesBaština, 2020
The paper will present and analytically-sinthetically analyze Teodosije's hagiography of Peter of Korisha in the light of hermetic tradition. The center of research is the character of Saint Peter of Kornisha in the hermetic tradition of medieval ...
Ćupić Zorana Z.
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The king’s body in Serbian hagiography: Meaning and function of the corpus invictissimus topos [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2013
Conceptions of the holy in Serbian hagiography were deeply inspired by the translations of patristic, byzantine and, partly, chivalric literature. Whether the corporal is exalted or rejected, in the tradition of Serbian hagiography it is never ...
Marjanović-Dušanić Smilja
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Omen and Anti-omen: The Rabbinic Hagiography of the Scapegoat’s Scarlet Ribbon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article proposes that the place and meaning of various objects among religious communities can be explored in terms of “hagiography,” that is, through the narratives constructed around sacred objects sometimes long after their physical disappearance.
Balberg, Mira
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