HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIP IN THE BODY: THE TASHAHHUD RITUAL MOVEMENT AND ITS REFLECTION IN ISLAMIC MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION
Keywords:
Corporeality, Tashahhud, ritual movement, hierarchical relationship, multimodal communication, metaphorical gesture, fractality.Abstract
The article discusses the ritual movement accompanying the recitation of Tashahhud as a form of expression of the hierarchical relationship between God and the World in Islamic culture. The analysis is based on the procedural logic of Islamic thinking, the theory of conceptual metaphor and the author's model of fractal reproduction of semantic structures. The material of the study is video recordings of Muslim sermons and narrative interviews with practicing Muslim women. It is shown that the structure of the ritual movement of Tashahhud is reproduced in non-ritual communication, continuing to fix the difference between the source of action and the perceiving subject. Gesture becomes a bodily form of maintaining hierarchical order in the Islamic worldview.
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