By Lewis Hyde
ISBN-10: 0307279502
ISBN-13: 9780307279507
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The Hebrew-Aramaic dictionary of Gesenius-Buhl, 16th ed. v. ḥ-r-r II. No truly satisfactory etymology has as yet been discovered for Greek eleutheros either, according to M. Pohlenz, Griechische Freiheit (Heidelberg, 1955), 189. Cf. A. Reifenberg, Ancient Jewish Coins, 2nd ed. (Jerusalem, 1947), 58 (dating from the first revolt), 60 ff. Dîwân, ed. H. Macartney (Cambridge, 1919), 449. v. ḥ-r-r. Cf. the Arabic dictionaries, among them the Lisân al-ʿArab, loc. cit. the linguistic terminology 33 used more widely when Islam came into contact with the philosophical thinking of the Mediterranean world that had known speculation about freedom for many centuries.
Since both competition and envy are not material but psychological qualities, someone like Abû Ḥayyân at-Tawḥîdî might easily have been dissatisfied with the saying. For him, “man’s laziness comes from his clay (ṭîn), while his active energy comes from his soul. ” Cf. lmtâʿ, II, 194. A particularly good and probably quite old, if fictitious, example is the brief letter of Muʿâwiyah to ʿAlî, beginning with “Give up envy” and ending with a reference to Qurʾân 113:5, cf. Naṣr b. Muzâḥim al-Minqarî, Waqʿat Ṣiffîn, ed.
It is very well possible that some emotional process originally indicated by the root ḥ-s-d took a strongly positive connotation (and occasional negative connotation) in one place and a strongly and exclusively negative connotation in another. In the same vein, it should be observed that the comparatively close agreement in meaning between Arabic ḥasad and our “envy” is not something to be taken for granted but is, on the contrary, rather exceptional as internal psychological processes rarely are defined linguistically in identical ways in different languages.
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