Plant science in Mathnavi

Plants have an important place in Rumi's meaningful mind, and the narratives developed using Mathnavi's knowledge of plants incorporate a new educational strategy that Rumi adopted to cultivation himself and the audience. This research was carried out using descriptive-analytical methods, the plants topics and plant science were extracted from the six books by Masnavi, and in the next stage the data was divided into two parts: physical (material) and metaphysical (immaterial): Rumi's approach to plants in these two sections is descriptive, sometimes material and formal, and corresponds to current agricultural science and sometimes a tool in the service of spiritual teachings. This research shows, on the one hand, Rumi's mystical discourse on plants as a manifestation of God, and on the other hand, it shows the poet's taste for using the literary industry to embellish and expressive the word. Rumi's knowledge of the name and morphology of plants and their medicinal and therapeutic properties; Various types of fruits, cereals, vegetables, and legumes; Horticultural terms and gardening methods; The cultivation and fertilization practices increase the suspicions that he had access and probably he read encyclopedic books like Bondeshan, Alabniyah a Haqiqat alAdwiyah, etc. Among the factors that can be considered as structural depth to the abundance of these terms are Rumi's naturalism and the geographic location of his residence and the influence of his father Bahaedin's spiritual teachings.