An Introduction to the Most Important Stylistic Features of Fayz Kashani's Sonnets

One of the most remarkable fields of Persian literature is mystical literature which has a very strong background and comprises a large part of our literature. An analytical study of the works in the fields of Sufism and Mysticism is required in order to understand their status in different eras and places as well as the stages of their evolution. Molla Mohsen Fayz Kashani is a very prominent and influential poet of the Safavid era, to whom, more than 200 works of poetry are attributed. This great scholar and mystic has a book of poetry containing around twelve thousand verses. The aim of this paper is to study Kashani's sonnets from a stylistic point of view. For this purpose, the final five hundred sonnets of Kashani’s book of sonnets will be examined separately from textual, semantic and literary aspects. It is worth pointing out that there are some rhetorical and structural features in this poet's sonnets which can be described as Kashani’s stylistic features, and will be discussed in detail in this article.