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Marins et sainteté à Sfax d'après les données archéologiques : l'exemple de Sîdî al-Bahrî et de Sîdî ʿAmar Kammûn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2018

Othman Ammar
Othman Ammar*
Affiliation:
Chargé de recherches à l'Institut national du patrimoine, Sfax, Tunisie.
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Abstract

The evidence on the relationship of seamen at Sfax with holiness, absent or hardly mentioned in the written texts, is revealed through archaeological data and in particular by epigraphic inscriptions. The oratory of Sîdî al-Bahrî and the minaret of Sîdî ʿAmar Kammûn in the medina of Sfax illustrate this relationship and demonstrate religious honour and the spread of a marine piety, in particular by the gifts offered by the sailors for the building, enlarging, embellishing or restoring of these pious constructions. The maritime community's attachment to the saints can be explained only by its fear of the sea, where many dangers occur of a natural, climatic and conflictual nature, bad weather, storm, aggression, etc. The saints thus became the symbol of the invulnerability of this port city.

ان الشهادة على اعتقاد البحارة بمدينة صفاقس بالأولياء، الغائبة أو بالكاد مذكورة في النصوص المكتوبة، تكشف من خلال المعطيات الأثرية وبالأخص النقوش الكتابية. توضح نقوش مصلى سيدي البحري ومئذنة سيدي عمر كمون هذه العلاقة وتظهر الشرف الديني واعتقاد البحارة بالأولياء ولا سيما من خلال بناء أو توسيع أو تجميل أو ترميم هذه الأبنية من قبل البحارة. لا يمكن تفسير تعلق المجتمع البحري بالأولياء إلا من خلال خوفه من البحر والأخطار التي يمكن أن تحدث فيه بسبب الصراع، وسوء الأحوال الجوية، والعواصف، والعدوان، الخ … فأصبح الأولياء لديهم رمزا للدفاع عن مدينتهم .

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Part 1: Research Papers
Information
Libyan Studies , Volume 49 , November 2018 , pp. 153 - 158
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Copyright © The Society for Libyan Studies 2018 

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