Abraham

Religion

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani often returns to Abraham through one recurring image: the shepherd from Ur of the Chaldees who grazes his flocks on a boundless land1. He makes him the figure of pastoral nomadism and notes that this image obsesses the young Hegel2. He takes it up in varied contexts: music and interpretation, worldliness in Clouscard, the question of identity. For him Abraham is also the patriarch shared by Jews, Christians and Muslims, called Ibrahim in Islam, hence the phrase "we are all children of Abraham"3 4. Speaking of the Sahel, he presents him as the human figure of that landscape and sees the desert as the common ground of the three monotheisms5. In his view, it is in the desert that a way of thinking appears in which salvation is not here6. He also mentions the trial God imposes on Abraham and his son. Finally, he cites literary scenes that recall Abraham, such as the engraving that reminds the narrator of his father's posture, or the almost biblical welcome of the grandfather in Nerval.

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Talks · 23 Mar 2024SAHELIAN AFRICA AND IMPERIALISM: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - with Dominique PAGANI

21:13Grazed his flocks on a boundless land, as in the Sahel.
27:39Human figure of the Sahelian landscape; the desert is the common place of the three monotheisms.