{"id":37574,"date":"2026-02-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/article\/french-kiss-arabic-culture-sarakhsi-love-ikhwan-al-safa-de-vaulx\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:00:00","slug":"french-kiss-arabic-culture-sarakhsi-love-ikhwan-al-safa-de-vaulx","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/french-kiss-arabic-culture-sarakhsi-love-ikhwan-al-safa-de-vaulx\/","title":{"rendered":"French Kiss and Arabic Culture: A\u1e25mad ibn al-\u1e6cayyib al-Sara\u1e2bs\u012b on Love in Light of Ras\u0101\u02beil I\u1e2bw\u0101n al-\u1e63af\u0101\u02be"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Abstract<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in the <em>Palermo Occasional Papers<\/em> of the Foundation for Religious Sciences (FSCIRE) (vol. 3, no. 1, 2025, pp. 37-84), this article by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/chercheur\/guillaume-de-vaulx-darcy\/\"><strong>Guillaume de Vaulx d&#8217;Arcy<\/strong><\/a>, associate researcher at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo, starts from a question: why do lovers kiss so passionately?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fragment attributed to A\u1e25mad ibn al-\u1e6cayyib al-Sara\u1e2bs\u012b (d. 286\/899), a disciple of al-Kind\u012b, offers an answer: the lover&#8217;s soul seeks to reach the beloved&#8217;s soul through the mouth and the pores of the skin, so that the two souls may unite despite the separation of their bodies. Franz Rosenthal had discovered this fragment, preserved in a manuscript of the Topkap\u0131 Palace library (Istanbul), and published an English translation without the Arabic text. The author here edits, translates and comments on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He reads it in light of Epistle 37 of the <em>Epistles of the Brethren of Purity<\/em> (<em>Ras\u0101\u02beil I\u1e2bw\u0101n al-\u1e63af\u0101\u02be<\/em>), also devoted to the phenomenon of love. On a philosophical level, the comparison reveals a consistent theory of love, in the wake of Plato&#8217;s <em>Symposium<\/em> and Galen&#8217;s theory of the <em>pneuma<\/em>: erotic experience becomes the starting point of spiritual union and of religious life. On a historical level, the consistency between the two texts adds weight to the hypothesis that al-Sara\u1e2bs\u012b was the author of the <em>Epistles<\/em>. Finally, the author traces the legacy of this interpretation of the kiss in Avicenna, Ibn \u02bfArab\u012b and Mull\u0101 \u1e62adr\u0101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article is freely available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/static.fscire.it\/f6\/67\/paop_3-1_2025_2devaulx.pdf\"><strong>journal website<\/strong><\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37567,"template":"","class_list":["post-37574","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"date_tournage":"2026-02-13","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>French Kiss and Arabic Culture: A\u1e25mad ibn al-\u1e6cayyib al-Sara\u1e2bs\u012b on Love in Light of Ras\u0101\u02beil I\u1e2bw\u0101n al-\u1e63af\u0101\u02be - Pluriel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/french-kiss-arabic-culture-sarakhsi-love-ikhwan-al-safa-de-vaulx\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"French Kiss and Arabic Culture: A\u1e25mad ibn al-\u1e6cayyib al-Sara\u1e2bs\u012b on Love in Light of Ras\u0101\u02beil I\u1e2bw\u0101n al-\u1e63af\u0101\u02be - Pluriel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abstract Published in the Palermo Occasional Papers of the Foundation for Religious Sciences (FSCIRE) (vol. 3, no. 1, 2025, pp. 37-84), this article by Guillaume de Vaulx d&#8217;Arcy, associate researcher at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo, starts from a question: why do lovers kiss so passionately? 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