Review and Analysis of Nezami Ganjavi's Theological-Literary Perspective

For Nezami, speech and poetry are not only tools for conversation and creation of beauty, but have a place beyond that in the creation system. Therefore, in addition to creating outstanding literary works from an aesthetic point of view, he always seeks to explain the important issues of ontology and teach the fundamentals of thinking about the system of existence and its existential levels. In this intellectual system, poetry, poets, and poetics are important parts of the levels of existence in two areas of creation and continuation of the purpose of the prophets in providing awareness, and also that they are among the most important levels in the service of sacred affairs and in line with the supreme system of creation. The main goal of this essay is to explain the relationship between Nezami's theological views and his literary views. Therefore, firstly, we have briefly stated Nezami's theological point of view in the two axes of the creator of existence and the way of creation and the hierarchy of existence, so that in this way and in the third stage, the position of poetry and the poet in the system of being, the importance and goals of the poet and the mission of a poet in this intellectual system will be explained and Nezami’s theological-literary view will be clarified on this basis.