Saussure reading of The Maqalat-e Shams-e Tabrizi

The speeches that have been made in The Maqalat-e Shams- are considered as valuable literary and mystical heritage. So far, they have been studied from various perspectives of literary criticism and theories, and research achievements have been obtained from them. In this research, with a new approach, the following topics such as the nature of linguistic sign (signifier and signified), discourses on non-linguistic signs, analysis of discourses from Shams based on the relationship between companionship and substitution in language, syntactic and lexical critique, and preference of essays on Shams , In the light of Saussure's linguistic views, is shown ,Reflecting on his speeches, one can see his linguistic and semiotic perception in the face of texts, traditions and phenomena of existence, which is surprising to today's readers and gives a contemporary dimension to his work. In the present study, the design and description of this important issue has been discussed.