HISTORICAL-HERMENEUTIC ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF FALSTAFF IN "PRINCE'S MIRROR" (ADMONITIONS TO THE RULERS) ABU HAMID MUHAMMAD AL-GHAZALI AL-TUSI: PROARITMICSKI CODE
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Abstract (English):
A hermeneutic analysis of the Oriental Philosophers´ writings is invariably a matter of great challenge and difficulty. It is always full of allegory and literary divagations which intersperse a smooth flow of argumentation. This paper is written by Marklen Konurbaev, Professor of Literature at Moscow State University and his son Salavat, a student of Arabic Philosophy. The paper consists of four parts and attempts to reveal the hidden message of a famous extract from the renowned book Ihya Ulum Al Din by a Persian philosopher Ghazall, Abu Hamid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-TusI, devoted to the analysis of the notion of "fairness" in the doings of a ruler. The hermeneutic analysis was performed based on the methodology propounded by Roland Gerard Barthes — a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and critic. This is the first ever attempt to put together the methodological efforts of a Western scholar and profoundly oriental piece of philosophy. Results of the hermeneutic study are stunning and elucidating. The paper could be recommended to the students of literature and philosophy at universities and colleges.

Keywords:
hermeneutics, falsafa, Ghazzali, Gazali, Roland Barthes, semantics, islam, interpretation, Ihya, semiotics, culture, oriental culture.
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Опираясь на систему герменевтического анализа Ролана Барта, мы выявили круг базовых и опорных понятий аргументации аль-Газали, на которых он выстраивает Наставление и дает свое определение системы власти.

 

Анализируемые семантические концепты аль-Газали многосложны и определяются через призму нескольких понятий. Смысл «Насихат аль Мулюк» раскрывается через анализ системы кодов: семного, проайретического, герменевтического. Труд аль-Газали состоит из двух элементов — «наставление» (насихат), «правители» (мулюк). В книге представлено три смысловых ряда — то, что объясняет наставления, то, что объясняет правителей, а так же то, что объясняет связь между ними.

 

Неизменными, корневыми в его системе являются семы «правления» и то, что связано с этикой. Через различные примеры и сопоставления аль-Газали определяет первое и второе как необходимую логическую связь, где сема «справедливость» является необходимой составляю-

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