Mudama مدامة

Mudama (مدامة) — Khamriyya verse 1 anchor: “sharibnā ʿalā dhikri ‘l-ḥabībi mudāmatan.” Mudāma is the specifically Sufi-poetic register for the wine drunk in memory of the Beloved before the creation of the vine; the perpetuity- etymology (d-w-m) anchors the pre-eternal reading. Distinguish from generic khamr (which can name any wine) and from rāḥ (a more general poetic wine). Nicholson 1921 renders as “vintage”; Homerin 2001 prefers “wine that lasts.” Pair-render consistently with the wine-vine pair so verse 26’s “wine without a vine / vine without a wine” survives the English.

Etymology

[STUB: editor to author etymology, root, and morphological notes.]

Cross-tradition resonance

Related terms across traditions (each relation is a stub the editor expands):

• Yayin (jewish-mysticism) — [STUB: editor to expand — shared-wine-as-mystical-influx-proposed]

Primary sources

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Scholarly literature

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Hekhal Editorial. "Mudama." Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition. Last modified May 2, 2026. https://hekhal.org/lexicon/mudama.

Hekhal Editorial. 2026. "Mudama." Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition. https://hekhal.org/lexicon/mudama.

Hekhal Editorial. "Mudama." Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition, May 2, 2026, hekhal.org/lexicon/mudama.

Hekhal Editorial. (2026). Mudama. Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition. https://hekhal.org/lexicon/mudama

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  title        = {{Mudama}},
  year         = {2026},
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