Early Islam, as it emerged from the Qur'an and the fragmentary testimonies of non-Muslim nearly contemporaries, exhibited a marked return to a sacrificial order, which may be best understood as a response to what René Girard would have called a 'sacrificial' crisis in pre-Islamic Arab society. But the Qur'an also contains a harsh criticism of this sacrificial order. As a result, it produces an unstable balance, which might be understood theologically as a means to retard the explosion of violence brought about by the demystification of the archaic sacred in the biblical message.
Diez, M., Islam et ordre sacrificiel. Une hypothèse girardienne, in Herbreteau, H., Baslez, M., Vasseur, F., Coc, G., Fœssel, M., Brague, R., Diez, M., Stenger, M., Grieu, É., Audouin-Rouzeau, S., De Volder, J., Foi et violence: un enchaînement fatal?, Cerf, Paris 2018: 89-105 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/131173]
Islam et ordre sacrificiel. Une hypothèse girardienne
Diez, Martino
2018
Abstract
Early Islam, as it emerged from the Qur'an and the fragmentary testimonies of non-Muslim nearly contemporaries, exhibited a marked return to a sacrificial order, which may be best understood as a response to what René Girard would have called a 'sacrificial' crisis in pre-Islamic Arab society. But the Qur'an also contains a harsh criticism of this sacrificial order. As a result, it produces an unstable balance, which might be understood theologically as a means to retard the explosion of violence brought about by the demystification of the archaic sacred in the biblical message.
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