On The Mystical Approaches of Sohrab Sepehri

One of the basic approaches to the existing critiques of Sohrab Sepehri enumerates the linguistic, semantic, and artistic values and features originally derived from the Islamic mysticism. Two trends are quite discernible in these comments:  proving the mystic nature of his thoughts and poems and, in contrast, rejection, refutation and even teasing the idea altogether. This paper, initially, states the problem and explains the affinity between Sepehri's poetry and Islamic mysticism. Then, a critical evaluative account of the views for and against Sepehri's alleged orientation towards Islamic mysticism is presented.