Systematicity in the Metaphorical Conceptualization of Knowledge based on Visual Perceptions in Ain al-Quzat Hamedani’s Tamhidat va Nameh-ha: A Cognitive Approach

The aim of the present research is to explain the existence of systematicity in the metaphorical conceptualization of knowledge based on visual perceptions in Ain al-Quzat Hamedani’s Tamhidat va Nameh-ha. In addition to showing the existence of metaphoric correspondence between the concepts of the field of knowledge and visual perceptions and explaining how this correspondence is done, the authors have tried to say which basic conceptual metaphors in the mentioned books correspond visual symbols with knowledge. To achieve this goal, the authors have used the theoretical framework of conceptual metaphor. The claim of the present research was that there is compatibility between the metaphor of knowing is seeing and the set of concepts in the field of knowledge. Also, in this research, the adaptation of the terms of the field of knowledge - heart vision, light, the light of Muhammad, and black light of Ezraeil - based on the conceptual metaphor of knowing is seeing is examined with the sense of sight. Other achievements of the research also showed that in Ain al-Quzat’s intellectual system of light and darkness and the subcategory conceptual metaphors of these two fields, it is consistent with the metaphor of knowing is seeing, and the conceptualization of knowledge is consistent with visual perceptions.