Amore divino e terreno nel Kitāb al-Kāfī di Muḥammad al-Kulaynī: note preliminari

The main aim of this contribution is to identify the different forms within which the discourse concerning the mutual relationship between God and human beings, as well as between the human being and the things of this world is centered starting from the occurrences of the terms used to express the idea of love (for example the radicals h.bb and wdd ) in the Kitāb al-Kāfī fī uṣūl al-dīn. This text, written by Muḥammad al-Kulaynī (d. 939-40 or 940-41 AD.), one of the architects of the Twelver scriptural canon, incorporates and transmits, in the form of accounts ascribed to the imams, rich materials still partly to be explored.