Mysticism Discourse in the Novels: "Wandering Island" and "Wandering Cameleer"

Upon arrival, modernity caused widespread changes in various levels of Iranian society, including the intellectual and cultural levels, and the mystical discourse, as a dominant traditional discourse in Iranian culture, changed afterwards. Persian novels were among the works that showed these changes or they themselves were involved in creating an effective dissidence. So, their examination can play an important role in rheology of mysticism and its position in the contemporary era. This research is to investigate the representation of mystic discourse in the novels of "Wandering Island" and "Wandering Cameleer" of Simin Daneshvar. Three "traditional", "modern" and "semi-traditional" discourses have been represented in this novel. In traditional discourse, the revival of the traditional role of mysticism in man's emancipation has been emphasized; but mysticism has been criticized in modern discourse and it has no role in this thought to solve the problems of contemporary society. The representation of these two discourses has been accomplished, if not say badly, with at least considerable weaknesses. In the "semi-traditional" discourse in which representation is accompanied with "goodness", the author presents, based on the teachings of traditional mysticism, a kind of mysticism that is consistent with modern society.