Evolution of Status and Value of Wisdom from Philosophers to Mystics

Wisdom and rationality are the most important conceptual elements and vocabularies in the vast Persian literature the scope of which has been extended from the early works of Dari Persian poets which had a horizontal and philosophical approach to the works of fifth and sixth century poets whose approach turned into something personal and mystical gradually and its status has deeply changed during this time frame. The opposing implications of these two types of poets, who are known as philosophers and mystics or Sufis, could be the subject of vast number of researches, as have been, and this paper deals with the gradual survey of the evolution, as the outcome of the various cultural, social, and political, and even lingual, causes and circumstances, from the primary works of poets who had the most philosophical variety to the works of those poets in the seventh and eighth with the highest mystical and Sufi colors and variety. Both philosophical and mystical poets have had numerous poems with rational and wisdom themes, nevertheless, since their general attitude and viewpoints toward other materialistic and spiritual phenomena are entirely different and sometimes opposing, despite the nearly equal use of these vocabularies, their products are different, explanatory, and sometimes contradictory. The reason is that the attitude of these two categories of poets stems from the totally opposite sources and intellectual resources about the phenomena of existence.