Studying on Shāhedbāzi in Mystical Texts from Psychological Point of View

After spreading of mysticism in Iran and other Islamic countries and coming mystical texts into being afterwards, Muslim mystics and their followers have been chided for expressing some ideas expressed in them. One of those ideas is pederasty (shāhedbāzi) that has perplexed the readers of mystical texts. The biographies of mystics show that they were in a high degree of spiritual experience, but on the other hand, we come cross shāhedbāzi in these texts that seems to be in contradicting with the principles of mysticism. Psychological criticism is one of the most important approaches in studying texts that opens new perspectives and reveals hidden aspects of a text. The present article tries to offer a different reading from mystical texts based on analytical psychology of Jung and Lacan.