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

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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)

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.

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  • Enesh Kurbanseiidovna Akhmatshina* & Yafia Yousif Jamil Hana & Amaliia Anatolievna Mokrushina, 2018. "Concepts of "Freedom", "Power" and "Leadership" in the Arabic Folklore as an Archetypal Element in Political Culture of the Middle East," The Journal of Social Sciences Research, Academic Research Publishing Group, pages 13-21:3.
    • Handle: RePEc:arp:tjssrr:2018:p:13-21
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