10: Elia di Nisibi, Il libro per scacciare la preoccupazione
10. Elia di Nisibi, «Kitāb Daf‘ al-Hamm». Il libro per scacciare la preoccupazione, 2° tomo, critical edition by Samir Khalil Samir, translation and notes by Anna Pagnini. Indexes by Paola Pizzi and Davide Righi. 400p. €48,00 (ISBN 9788871581552)
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In the Mesopotamia of the XI sec. a muslim visir asks to a nestorian bishop to write for him a spiritual guide for driving away the anguish of the spirit. It is therefore that this book much disseminated in the antiquity and up to now inaccessible to the not Arabist reader is born. " the book in order to drive away the anguish " is a text of sapiential literature, a cultured work but of easy approach, organized like one collection of principles of virtue and defects opposite the ones to the others. They are coming from words of wisdom from Greek philosophers, sovereign Persians, from Christian monks of the east and from muslim traditions and the Bedouins, precious testimony of the medieval Arabic cultural atmosphere in the variety of its roots and in the homogeneity of its language.
