Syntactic Stylistics of Ahmad Gazali's Sawanih- Al-Oshaq & Ruzbehan Baqli’s Abhar- Al-Ashiqin

Sawanih- Al-Oshaq by Ahmad Gazali is the first Persian Sufi masterpiece written about Love. The writer has redefined love beyond its divine or earthly meaning and built a Sufi discourse with love as its central concept. This love discourse was followed and grown up by next writers such as Ruzbehan Baqli, who wrote Abhar-Al-Ashiqin. Complicated language and literary values caused the content of those treatises to be neglected, so in Persian Sufi research tradition these texts were introduced as poematic, personal treatises without a specified ideological frame. Utilizing the devices of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) such as " context of situation' and the analysis of ideational metafunction, has shown the declaratory and theoretical aspect of these two texts. Moreover, the formation of love discourse in 6th century A.H. was represented by comparing both texts.