mawlid-Texts from the 13th to the 18th Century: Prophetic Piety as Ritual Performance?

以先知穆罕默德（mawlid）的诞生为中心的叙事诗出现于世纪后期。在接下来的几个世纪里，几乎所有著名的学者都写了mawlid文本。历史研究只研究了一些关于内容主题和叙事线索的旧文本。拟议的项目将分析mawlid文本不仅在内容方面，但作为文学文本，并将首次包括诗歌，占许多文本的很大一部分。它彻底审查了七个选定的文本，其广泛的流通和使用有据可查。它侧重于内容和形式如何提供洞察文本各自功能的问题。特别的兴趣将支付给这些文本的艺术声乐表演的修辞手段的识别。该项目捕捉mawlid文本在三个维度，其隆起可能会改变从文本到文本：作为一种文学体裁，作为宗教教育的手段，并作为仪式表演的脚本。它将分析mawlid作为口头和书面传统的间隙prosimetric文学体裁，探索体裁和作者的问题，分析修辞手段，并将其置于文学作品及其新兴的新美学中，特别是在赞美诗中。它将分析mawlid作为宗教教育的一种手段，确定主题特征和先知各自的形象。最后，对mawlid作为仪式表演脚本的分析将集中在铭刻在文本中并使观众能够参与的表演元素上，如祈祷，相应的身体动作或诗歌结构。对文本的非重复性特征的评估将通过几种来源类型的组合来补充：阿拉伯历史编纂，阿拉伯和欧洲旅行见闻录，以及关于仪式实践和背诵技巧的伊斯兰司法文献。这将通过观察和音频材料的当代表演实践的赞美诗的先知，mawlid，和祈祷源于申请人在叙利亚和黎巴嫩的实地考察2008-2013. mawlid文本互动与其他文学文本和新兴的新美学在马穆鲁克时期，一方面与新出现的虔诚的做法。因此，该项目旨在为历史宗教实践和13至18世纪世纪的文学史做出贡献。然而，这项研究将不仅仅是关于历史实践及其文本。相反，它涉及的宗教实践仍然有效的生活伊斯兰教今天。然而，这种做法目前处于守势，面临着所谓正确伊斯兰教的自封发言人的压力。

Prosimetric narratives centring on the birth of the prophet Muhammad (mawlid) emerge from the late 12th century onwards. In the following centuries, almost all renowned scholars write mawlid-texts. Hitherto research has only studied some of the older texts with regard to content motifs and narrative strands. The proposed project will analyse mawlid-texts not only with regard to content but as literary texts and will for the first time include the poetry which accounts a large part of many texts. It thoroughly examines seven selected texts whose wide circulation and usage is well documented. It focuses on the question of how content and form provide insight into the respective functions of the texts. Special interest will be paid to the identification of rhetoric devices which point to an artistic vocal rendition of these texts.The project captures mawlid-texts in three dimensions whose eminence may alter from text to text: as a literary genre, as a means of religious education, and as a script of ritual performance. It shall analyse mawlid as a prosimetric literary genre at the interstices of oral and written tradition, exploring questions of genre and authorship, analysing the rhetorical devices, and placing it within the literary production and its emerging new aesthetics in general and within the praise poetry for the prophet in particular. It shall analyse mawlid as a means of religious education, identifying thematic features and the respective images of the prophet. Finally, the analysis of mawlid as a script of ritual performance will focus on the performative elements that are inscribed into the text and enable the participation of the audience, like prayers, corresponding bodily movements, or poetic structures. The evaluation of text-immanent characteristics will be supplemented by the combination of several source types: Arabic historiography, Arabic and European travelogues, and Islamic juridical literature on ritual practice and recitation techniques. This will be complemented by observations and audio material of contemporary performance practices of praise poems for the prophet, mawlid, and prayers stemming from a fieldwork of the applicant in Syria and Lebanon 2008-2013.mawlid-texts interact with other literary texts and the emerging new aesthetics in the Mamluk period on the one hand and with new emerging practices of piety on the other hand. The project thus seeks to be a contribution to historical religious practice and to the literary history of the 13th to 18th century. However, the study will not be on historical practice and its texts alone. Rather, it deals with religious practice still valid for lived Islam today. This practice, however, finds itself currently on the defensive, facing the pressure of self-titled spokespersons of a so-called correct Islam.