Death Between Society and Culture

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  • Habib Nahdi

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Death, Society, Culture

Abstract

Ahmed Zeineldin, Death Between Society and Culture (Doha/ Beirut: ACRPS, 2024), pp. 223.

References

  1. Ahmed Zeineldin, al-Mawt Bayn al-Mujtamaʿ wa-l-Thaqāfa (Doha/Beirut: ACRPS, 2024). 2 Ibid., p. 15.
  2. Michel Vovelle, L’heure du grande passage chronique de la mort (Paris: Gallimard, 1993), p. 103. Louis-Vincent Thomas echoes this view, writing that “death will become as sex was in the past: the primary taboo of the contemporary world”. See Louis-Vincent Thomas, “Les sociétés devant la mort,” in: Encyclopaedie Universalis , corpus 12 (Paris: Encyclopaedia universalis France, 1985), p. 668; Monica Charlot, Vivre avec la mort (Paris: Editions Alain Moreau, 1976), p. 211.
  3. The “unthought” is “no more than an accumulation of what is unthinkable [impensable] at several successive historical junctures, for reasons religious, political, social, or otherwise”. See: Mohammed Arkoun, Islamic Thought: A Scientific Reading , Hashem Saleh (trans.) (Beirut: Centre de Development National, 1987), p. 18.
  4. Zeineldin, p. 22.
  5. Radouan Rabhi, “Horizons of the Historiography of Death in the Far Maghreb,” Anthropologia , vol. 3 (March 2016), pp. 51-61.
  6. Didier Moulinier, Eros et Thanatos à l'ère du numérique: Suivi de, Remarques sur le Virtuel (Paris: Editions Les contemporains Favoris, 2015).
  7. Zeineldin, p. 23.
  8. Edgar Morin, L’homme et la mort (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1970), p. 57.
  9. Louis-Vincent Thomas, Mort et pouvoir (Paris: Editions Payot, 2010).
  10. Belkacem Tababi, Death in Egypt and the Levant, vol. 1: Demographic Catastrophes during the Mamluk Period and vol. 2: Death Rituals in the Mamluk Period (Tunis: La Maison Tunisienne du Livre, 2014); Raja Ben Slama, Death and Death Rituals in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Muslim (Tunis: Sud Editions, 1997).
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