TY - JOUR

T1 - Concepts of Charisma and Leadership in Bambara and Persian

AU - Davydov, A.V.

AU - Tonoyan, Artem

N1 - Davydov A.V., Tonoyan A. Concepts of Charisma and Leadership in Bambara and Persian. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2022, vol. 14, issue 4, pp. 635– 647. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.404

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The article deals with the concepts of charisma and leadership in two non-Western Islamiccultures from the linguistic perspective. The concepts of charisma and charismatic leadershiphave a long tradition of studying in sociology, political science and psychology since M.Weber.Charisma can be defined as compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion inothers. Cognates of this Greek word are found in most European languages. The English wordleader has been borrowed by many related and non-related languages. The questions we areaddressing in this article are: How to translate charisma and leader into Bambara and Persian?What Bambara and Persian words can be translated with the English words charisma andleader? What is the origin of these words in Bambara and Persian? How these words functionwithin the two languages and two cultures? To answer these questions we analyze a wide rangeof lexicographic and textual sources. We come to a conclusion, that in both languages thevocabularies consist of layers of different origin: Soninke and Manding in Bambara, Iranianand Altaic in Persian, Arabic in both languages. Despite long histories of Islamization bothlanguages, though influenced by Arabic, have kept their core vocabularies in what concernscharisma and leadership.

AB - The article deals with the concepts of charisma and leadership in two non-Western Islamiccultures from the linguistic perspective. The concepts of charisma and charismatic leadershiphave a long tradition of studying in sociology, political science and psychology since M.Weber.Charisma can be defined as compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion inothers. Cognates of this Greek word are found in most European languages. The English wordleader has been borrowed by many related and non-related languages. The questions we areaddressing in this article are: How to translate charisma and leader into Bambara and Persian?What Bambara and Persian words can be translated with the English words charisma andleader? What is the origin of these words in Bambara and Persian? How these words functionwithin the two languages and two cultures? To answer these questions we analyze a wide rangeof lexicographic and textual sources. We come to a conclusion, that in both languages thevocabularies consist of layers of different origin: Soninke and Manding in Bambara, Iranianand Altaic in Persian, Arabic in both languages. Despite long histories of Islamization bothlanguages, though influenced by Arabic, have kept their core vocabularies in what concernscharisma and leadership.

KW - charisma

KW - leadership

KW - concept

KW - Bambara

KW - Manding

KW - Mande

KW - Persian

KW - Iranian

UR - https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/39181/1/04.pdf

UR - https://aasjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/15398

M3 - Article

VL - 14

SP - 635

EP - 647

JO - ВЕСТНИК САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. ВОСТОКОВЕДЕНИЕ И АФРИКАНИСТИКА

JF - ВЕСТНИК САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. ВОСТОКОВЕДЕНИЕ И АФРИКАНИСТИКА

SN - 2074-1227

IS - 4

ER -