جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Aflaki » در نشریات گروه « ادبیات و زبان ها »

The tradition of mystical biography by writing both forms of collective and personal writing biography is a continuation of Islamic historiography that uses the tradition of documenting and objectification of the science of hadith to validate itself and it creates facts about mystics or a mystic. From an epistemological point of view, the construction of the mentioned reality is the result of selecting the author-narrator or narrators who represent it according to special epistemology or ideological attachments, this point is especially noticeable in personal biographies due to the density of events and many details. One of these biographies is Manaqib al-Arifin al-Aflaki, which has been written about Rumi and his entourage. In this article, the narrative-discourse validity of Aflaki constructed reality in representing the events of Rumi's life has been identified and interpreted in a descriptive-analytical manner. The theoretical basis of the research is the opinions of some experts in social semiotics and critical discourse analysis, whose meanings have been explained in both quantitative and qualitative levels.  The result shows that the author-narrator documents some of his constructed facts from a quantitative point of view by using four categories of number modality, emphatic, narrative frequency and continuity with high causality. At another level from a qualitative point of view, some other events are first objectively and perceptibly based on the narrator-focal cognitive tools, such as the sense of sight, hearing and touch, which indicate the perceptive "here" and "now"...

Manaqib al-Arefin, authored by Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki, describes the life of Mawlawi family and the elders of Mawlawiyya Order. In this book, Aflaki portrayed mythological and surreal characters of the predecessors and contemporaries. Many mystical issues of Manaqib al-Arefin are consistent with mythological concepts; and mythological beliefs play a role in the formation of the contents of this mystical biography. This research has raised the question of which components of mystical themes of Manaqib al-Arefin are proportional to the mythological themes of Eliade. In this paper, Manaqib al-Arefin has been analyzed using a descriptive-analytical method and a mythological approach based on Eliade’s perspective to explain the extent of conformity between mysticism and myth. The results show that in this work, the hero has already been designated as a savior according to the archetypes. In Mawlawi’s life cycle, one can clearly see the stages of purification, renewal of life and manifestation; he performs the ritual of holy washing before entering his subconscious domain and prepares himself to join the assembly of holiness, and on his inner journey, he transcends the human requirements and attains the witnessing of God Exalted, the angels, prophets, and spirits. Moreover, in Manaqib al-Arefin, the roof of school and the bath pool are exemplary types of the center of the world where the earthly world and spiritual world join.