Cultural Development in Persian Literature fromMawlavi's Perspective

Development is an inseparable part of the world and human being as the most outstanding and the most deserving creature to develop. In fact, his cultural and internal development prevail other aspects of his nature. Since, the only distinctive feature is his soul and thought. Mawlavi, the Iranian literary mystic, has fully elaborated the real aspects and components of human culture including the destructive elements. Moreover, he has provided the practical measures for cultural development. He believes that we should recognize the problems first, then, through coping with the problems we should find our way out towards the favorite cultural development. This article investigates Mawlavi's different reflections and ideologies and shows that he approaches the subject psychologically rather than sociologically, which reveals the difference between Mawlavi and Ghazzali regarding cultural development.