Forgive me if I've mentioned it before--I honestly can't remember--but I'm still torn about this idea of a spiritual Jaffar/Princess fic I want to write. One where she has a spiritual crisis about what she sees as Jaffar's polytheism, the way any religious medieval person would, and is seriously worried about whether her husband would be cast into
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And awww! I guess she would forever have that 25 year age gap in the back of her mind.
l wonder whether the Barmakids converting would have had some sort of influence over Jaffar's varying beliefs and penchant for universalism etc. And thus, would the rest of his family have been likewise inclined? Would they have communicated that to each other? It's interesting to think about, as I'm sure you'd have had to keep things like that very much to yourself in those days.
I can see it being one area that Jaffar/Princess definitely could conflict on, even if it is merely concern for the other that brings it about each time!
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But yeah, poor Pwinzezz. The Jaffar in the movie is such an out-and-out wizard and we see those idol-type things that it would be pretty much out in the open, the religiously suspect stuff. I think that most of the conflict would come from her being a bit more conservative in religious matters because in Sufism in particular, Islam can technically encompass anything because some mystics said even idols would have been forms of God and the pagan worshippers did nothing wrong (something that'd give the more stuck-up scholars heart attacks). So Jaffar would have plenty of room for philosophical argument there, but she'd stick to the Qur'an and that obviously condemns such things and it'd be more of a matter of interpretation as to whether he was an idolator or not. (I just somehow imagine some of those arguments ending with him going "Yes, because I worship at the altar of this sweet cunny!" *FACEPLANTS* "Mmmph!")
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Ah no way! Legends are always fascinating when you link them back to the RL stuff that they're routed in. Haha, gotter' give them credit - that's a pretty creative thing to come up with really. It is bizarre how proving ones faith was, and remains *such* a big part of religious community. I've always thought that that contradicts the sort of fundamental meaning behind the word 'faith' itself, as it were. But there you have it. One would only hope that the Pwinzezz wouldn't be too hard on Jaffar's wayward convictions! And vice versa :)
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