RT - Journal Article T1 - Sultan Muhammad’s Painting and the Deconstruction of the Binary Opposition in the Interpretations of Hafez’s Poetry JF - mdrsjrns YR - 2015 JO - mdrsjrns VO - 8 IS - 32 UR - http://lcq.modares.ac.ir/article-29-7652-en.html SP - 105 EP - 131 K1 - Poststructuralism K1 - Hafez K1 - Sultan Mohammad K1 - Binary Opposition K1 - Jacques Derrida AB - Dogmatic approaches interpret literary texts in definitive ways. However, literary texts do lose their supposed absolute and final meanings when approached from a poststructuralist perspective. Consequently, it is possible to have multiple readings of a text from different perspectives. Drawing on Derridean deconstruction of binary oppositions, this paper studies a miniature painting by Sultan Mohammad Naqqash based on Hafez’s poetry. Hafez’s divan is always open to various interpretations between spiritual and worldly approaches. Contrary to the classical interpretations in which a definitive meaning is sought after, “Heavenly and Earthly Inebriation” painting by Sultan Mohammad deconstructs this opposition and presents a new reading of the poem. Based on an analytic-historical method, we argue that this painting creates a new hermeneutic world by geometric composition, colors, and characterization. The painting, we conclude, maintains the poetic ambiguity of Hafez’s poetry. Accordingly, we can say that there is no final meaning in this painting because the spectators simultaneously experience both poles of this opposition and, as a result, for them there is no absolute interpretation. LA eng UL http://lcq.modares.ac.ir/article-29-7652-en.html M3 ER -