Concepts of "Freedom", "Power" and "Leadership" in the Arabic Folklore as an Archetypal Element in Political Culture of the Middle East

Enesh Kurbanseiidovna Akhmatshina*, Yafia Yousif Jamil Hana and Amaliia Anatolievna Mokrushina
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Enesh Kurbanseiidovna Akhmatshina*: Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Yafia Yousif Jamil Hana: Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Amaliia Anatolievna Mokrushina: Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia

The Journal of Social Sciences Research, 2018, 13-21 Special Issue: 3

Abstract: This article presents a critical analysis of such archetypal concepts as "freedom", "power" and "leadership" in the Arab-Muslim folklore.The authors of the article have conducted a structural and semantic analysis of proverbs using conceptual, comparative-historical and anthropological methods and studied significant fragments of Ma?ma ‘al-’am??l (collection of proverbs dated back to the 12th century) compiled by the well-known Muslim linguist al-Mayd?n?. They have distinguished a special group of proverbs that reflect an attitude to power, personal freedom, the leader’s authority and other social culture-bound concepts typical of the pre-Islamic and Arab-Muslim medieval civilization. This study is crucial since it enables to identify prototypes of the modern Arabic political culture based on archetypal elements of the collective mindset.

Keywords: The Arabic language; Proverbs; Folklore; Political anthropology; The middle east. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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