From the Margins of the Colophon:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" From the Margins of the Colophon: "
Aaron Frederick Eldridge

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067145
Doc. No	:	LA110774
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341575‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Aaron Frederick Eldridge
Title & Author	:	From the Margins of the Colophon: [Article] : Arab Orthodox Monasticism in Ruins\ Aaron Frederick Eldridge
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	49/3-4
Page No	:	379–400
Abstract	:	This article, drawn from two years of ethnographic fieldwork, traces the temporal articulations of Orthodox Christian monasticism in post-war Lebanon. It recounts one Lebanese monastery’s reinhabitation—founded on the uncanny return of its martyred saints—as evidence of monastic life’s constitutive intimacy with ruination. The article subsequently explores the grammars of temporal delimitation (the juridical and territorial apparatuses of state land tenure as well as the archival trace of historiography) and argues that these approaches disable the possibility of accounting for such a return in ruins. Offering the Orthodox tradition’s language of ascetical dispossession as an analytic counterpoint, the article takes up the monastic language of renunciatory withdrawal. The temporality of this withdrawal, in its protological and its eschatological marginalization, brings into relief a form of time that presses upon the limits of historiography.
Descriptor	:	asceticism
Descriptor	:	historiography
Descriptor	:	Lebanon
Descriptor	:	Orthodox Christianity
Descriptor	:	ruin
Descriptor	:	temporality
Descriptor	:	tradition
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341575‬