pantheism and its images in attar's verses

Pantheism is one of the dominant concepts in mystical thought, and it is said that this concept is basically originated from mystical experiences of mystics. Attar Neishabouri as a Muslim mystic (Sufi) was influenced by the concept of Pantheism and tried to express the concept in the form of literary images in his verses. In this article, Authors intended to discover how images in Attar’s verses are employed to illustrate Pantheism. As a result, it is known that Attar used four images including ‘Hidden Apparent’, ‘Ocean’, Sun’ and, ‘Simorq’ in high frequency in his verses to depicting the abstract notion of Pantheism. Also, as there are three approach to Pantheism, i.e. Identity, Metaphysics of levels and Manifestation, the Authors tried to demonstrate the connection between images and these three approaches to Pantheism. One of the common characteristics between these images are being paradoxical especially when it comes to realm of mystical experience.