Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/insaniyat.674>
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DOI: <
10.4000/insaniyat.674>
Abstract
What happens when popular oral tradition (tales, poetry) take up topic belonging to the sacred canonical category, a topic which originally figures in our reference text namely the Koran ?We must ask ourselves firstly, why this interest for such sacred topics and figures, in particular for the story of Joseph and Abraham’s sacrifice, and many other tales which have passed from a sacred register to profane owing to their having been taken up by oral tradition. Then it is necessary to question the reality of eventual differences intervening during such a procedure, that is to say during the transfer from one register to another.Finally, if differences really exist, it would be correct to question what they bring to the source text or what they miss out in the stories they are derived from.Would it be a question of procedure to take away the semantic and sacred element in the source text target ?These are the sort of questions which we have tried to answer throughout this article.