The Introduction and Investigation of Stylistic features of Three Dissertations by Seyyed Mohammad Noorbakhsh

The manuscripts of Me’rajiye, Talvihat and Favayed are three dissertations among the mystical and educational prose works of the Timurid period written by Mohammad Nourbakhsh. The prose style of the mentioned treatises is mostly technical since the author has employed more Arabic compounds , Ayas, haiths, literary devices such as rhyme, parallelism, derivations, synonyms, alliterations, paradoxes , allusion and similes. In the Meʼrajiye dissertation, the Miraj of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was explained through a mystical method. Nourbakhsh Khorasani believed that holy prophet Mohammad travelled to Me’raj in an exemplary body. He also had observed everything in their exemplary shapes. There are 11 surviving copies of this manuscript preserved in the libraries of Iran. It is worth noting that Talvihat and Favayed are single-copy dissertations. The Talvihat concerns the position of prophets and, the differences and similarities between the Prophet and the saints, the erroneous beliefs of the superficial scholars and the common people about the prophets and the saints, unusual habits, the austerity of Indian yogis, the raising consciousness and love for the saints of God . The Favayed includes the influences of sin and oppression on humankind, the self-purification, appealing to the men of God, criticizing the extremist views of the superficial people on the boundaries of knowledge, facilities and possessions of the saints of God, the truth of astronomy and the descents of unseen world. Using a library, analytical and descriptive methods, this research briefly refers to the life of Seyyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh Khorasani and introduces the Me’rajiye, the Talvihat, and the Favayed dissertations. The stylistic characteristics of these works are also investigated in terms of language, expression, and thought.