Showing 26 results for Ghazal
Volume 5, Issue 1 (1-2025)
Abstract
Atheists often believe that modern science supports their viewpoint. Some claim that the metaphysical basis of contemporary science leaves no room for religious beliefs, asserting that there is a fundamental incompatibility between science and theism. However, a couple of philosophers argue that this claim is misguided and that there are actually compelling reasons to see a profound compatibility between theism and science. In this paper, we will demonstrate, based on Alvin Plantinga's epistemology on one hand and Al-Ghazali's hermeneutic theory on the other, that not only is there no serious conflict between science and theistic beliefs, but we can also view them as interdependent.
Volume 6, Issue 8 (9-2021)
Abstract
Lefevere considers translation as a kind of rewriting that is informed by the extra-systemic limitations like ideology and intra-systemic limitations like poetics. Adopting a descriptive-analytical approach, this research seeks to study the chebli’s rewriting of the ghazal 10th and 12th of Hafez The final result of this research, shows this rewriting is influenced by Poetic limitation and ideological . Manifestations of Lefeverechr('39')s view can be seen in the form of poems and manipulating the rhythm, music,inverting the use of pronouns, increasing some words, and domesticating,with the mystical attitude oon the rewriting of monastic symbols , and feast (bazm). Sometimes it is far from Lefevere ‘s view by exaggerating, unclear meaning and the same reception of "Pir" and "Sheikh".
Majid Bahrevar,
Volume 6, Issue 21 (3-2013)
Abstract
The never-ending magical discourse of Hāfiz of Shiraz has become an artistic puzzle and through the analysis of his words, many have provided with recurring themes. Particularly, the ghazals of Hooshang Ebtehāj (H. A. Sāyeh) bear the rich textual and extra-textual resemblances to the ghazals of Hāfiz and declare a historical and inmost dialogue with the Hāfizian art and thought. In this paper, I aim to present dialogism to put Mikhail Bakhtin's literary-social theory of the text in practical use by application of a Persian poetical tradition, "Javāb-Gooyee" and Sāyeh's approaching to Hāfiz. By this we can also criticize some remarks on the decadence and imitational style of his poetry. In general, the Sāyeh’s dialogical Hāfiz-oriented ghazals will be studied intertextually and discursively on the basis of some views of structuralists as Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva. I should conclude briefly that Sāyeh's dialogism haunts between the text and the community. On one hand, his intertextual references are often restricted to the syntagmatic axis, especially to reproduction of lingual codes, rhetorical devices, and prosody of Hāfiz and on the other hand, his historical discourse, especially on three characteristics namely society, human, and love take a polemical stand against discourse of Hāfiz.
Roya Yadolahi Shahrah,
Volume 6, Issue 24 (12-2013)
Abstract
A Study about the evolution of Vahhab's Character in the context of love in Khane-ye Edrisiha Based on Joseph Campbell's Theory of Hero's Journey Khane-ye Edrisiha, the symbolic novel by Ghazaleh Alizadeh, has good potentials for symbolic reading. One of the appropriate methods to comprehend this symbolic structure is an analysis based on "Hero's Journey" that Joseph Campbell suggests. the present research aims to show how the scheme of evolution at the context of love for Vahhab, one of the main characters of the novel, adapts with "Hero's Journey" pattern. This adaptation shows itself through analyzing the novel. This pattern doesn’t apply to the novel only in these stages: Atonement with the Father and the stages that come after the Magic Flight. The omission of the latter stages depends on the general plot of the novel and the writer's decision for the ending section, but the omission of Atonement with the Father stage and almost deletion of Vahab's father in this novel is an important and significant issue that needs another psychosocial study. Key Words Kane-ye Edrisiha, Ghazaleh Alizadeh, Joseph Campbell, Hero's Journey, Love
Volume 8, Issue 1 (3-2017)
Abstract
Language is considered as the basic material in research on literature & mysticism. For the linguistics can enable researchers to achieve functional approaches. Although the presupposition was accounted in the past issue of the more basic subjects in domain of linguistics and newer approaches have shown little interest about this phenomenon by logical analysis, but reflect on some of these issues can assist in the analysis of invisible aspects of the meaning which was usually neglected in generative grammar. The research methodology is descriptive –analytic. It should consider the presuppositions as the specific kinds of conversational implicatures that, particularly, by means of the connectors of the discourse, such as conjunctions (but, so, in addition, etc) transfer the cognitive value of the propositions to the audience. This paper tries to respond to this question that how the presuppositions can figure the evolution of mystical principles in Sama' through its association with the requirements of ontological, epistemological and cultural context of the subject.
Volume 8, Issue 34 (6-2012)
Abstract
Emam Mohammad Ghazali is one of the main thinkers of the World of Islam and two of his books, including “Kimiaye Sa’adat” are the most important books on Islamic ethics and mysticism. The mentioned book covers mystical and ethical thoughts. The ethics considered by Ghazali is based upon religious ethics, which has its roots in Holy Quran. The topic of spirit is one of the most important ethical and mystical topics which Ghazali has studied in his mentioned book. In this study, we elaborate on the issue of spirit in the viewpoint of Ghazali, and we intend to study the roots of his viewpoints. Ghazali was evidently influenced by a number of thinkers and mystical figures such as Avicenna, Abu-Taleb Macci, and Qoshiri. This analytical-descriptive article researches on the views of Ghazali about the spirit in relation to his aforementioned book. Obviously, the study of all of the ideological foundations of an author is not possible. However, research in this regard can relatively reveal the foundation of his ideas and thoughts
Volume 9, Issue 1 (5-2021)
Abstract
In all types of literature, dreams and related phenomena are among the most important foundations of poets and writers, which have been viewed from different angles. In most cases, Rumi does not express his message naturally and is based on a structure based on linguistic habits and the Sufi system of thought. The dream is also intertwined in Rumichr's mind with a multifaceted attitude and finds a different manifestation every moment. In this research, with a descriptive-analytical method and a library method, by examining Rumichr's lyric poems and Levinaschr's book "From Existence to Existence", the concept of a night owl and sleep aversion from the perspective of Rumi and Emmanuel Levinas from the perspective of the American school has been studied. The results of the study suggest that both thinkers believe that drowsiness is one of the first features in the course and behavior and the basis of movement. The invitation of Rumi and Levinas is an invitation to go beyond the situation of a captive human being in the world and to abandon theoretical customs and to engage in true conduct with the help of true awakening and to address the "other". Levinas substitutes another God for an infinite position, and in the opinion of another Rumi, the same is the beloved, and Shams in the position of the beloved is for Rumi a mixture of earthly and heavenly attributes and is similar to what Levinas says about another
Volume 9, Issue 3 (11-2021)
Abstract
This study aims to consider ghazal/sonnet from conceptual metaphor perspective (Lakoff, 1980). The corpus used in the study contains 24 poems (189 couplets) in Persian, Azerbaijani Turkish and English. The results of the paper show that the most frequent target domain in ghazal is “love”. Moreover, central conceptual metaphors in “love” are: A) in Persian: LOVE IS JOURNEY, LOVE IS WINE, LOVE IS TIE, LOVE IS FIRE, LOVE IS AWAKENING, LOVE IS DEAL. B) in Azerbaijani Turkish: LOVE IS OPPRESSION, LOVE IS WAITING, LOVE IS TURNING/TAWAF, LOVE IS SPRING, LOVE IS WINE, LOVE IS SERMON. C) in English: LOVE IS LIVE, LOVE IS UNSTABLE, LOVE IS PARADOX. This study also confirms that linguistic form has a direct influence on conceptual metaphor occurrence in ghazal. According to the findings of the current paper, the central conceptual metaphor plays a key role in versification. That is, central conceptual metaphor in ghazal seems to be the stimulus to the poet.
Nasrolah Emami, Ghodrat Ghasemipour, Ghodrat Zarouni,
Volume 10, Issue 38 (8-2017)
Abstract
From past till now the formation of the ghazal have a constant form and defintions and glint in the persian literature. According to this definitions, ghazal is a form that the first hemistich have a same rime with even hemistich. in this period and simulataneously with popularity of the nimas new poetry efforts began to evolve into the field of a ancient forms including ghazal. This innovations mainly occur for dynamics of these formation and their adaptation to the changes with time. One of the most important and original course in the ghazal course is the new ghazal field that there is in the country in a literary atoosphere In this years we have seen a lot of changes in the field of content and form in ghazal. In this research basd on form transformations we try to describe the types of innovation in the form of the appearance of ghazal but the finding of this study show that the most important of them are: 1.change in the form of writing and the system of ghazal lineage. 2. Nimas ghazal formation. 3. Take ghazal visitingly. 4. Put the synonym beyt together. 5. Blending with other formation. 6.Writing the beyt regulary, 7. Bring two hemistich in one beyt, 8. Use of punctuation makes in the frame of the ghazal, 9. Divide the ghazal into several part, Finishing in ghazal technique, This is a research article to survey this techniques, aesthetic and provide examples and analyzes around them and finally a brief discussion a bout the pathology of this techniques. Different.
Volume 11, Issue 3 (7-2020)
Abstract
In the story of the Edrissis' House, social perceptions and habits, apart from being able to form a historical study, depict social causes and reflect the author's mentality and social situation. The main points of the story are wandering characters who are immersed in the foggy and bitter memories of their past as if reviewing these memories is sweet or very annoying and painful for them. Mrs. Edrisi, the owner of the ancestral home (Edrissis' House), is still stunned by the fantasy of her youth and her love for the fire brigade. In this story, spatial, temporal, and narrative themes are the tools to describe realistic and critical structures. After the Bolshevik and workers' revolutions, Mrs. Edrisi, a member of the aristocracy, has witnessed profound changes in the urban situation amid popular discontent. The narration in this story is an excuse to describe and explain the linguistic structures and meanings that lie on the one hand and social realities and political conflicts on the other. In the context of Edrissis' House, "meaning" plays out the form and content of the narrative, to remove the potential of Alizadeh's language from the linear barrier and to define the subject in the heart of a dynamic and out-of-structure process. Therefore, to clarify the game of narration from the perspective of semiotics in this story, the position of the sign and its structure must be identified to some extent. For poststructuralists, language systems, events, and events are formed over time. Kristeva, a Bulgarian psychoanalyst, linguist, and poststructuralist philosopher, reviewed her linguistic structures by writing her first book, and investigated the Semantic features , emphasizing literary and poetic texts in historical and social contexts. She showed the dynamics of sing by which processes change themselves. Chora is a symbol of Kristeva's energy, dynamism, and vibrancy, her inner drive, and signifier of language. Thus, the identification of linguistic cues for Kristeva is "the study of the mechanisms of production, transmission, and reception of meaning". In this article, we will try to answer questions about the analysis of symbolic structures and sign language in the novel of the Edrissis' House and pave the way to research in similar contexts. Although we see the presence of both realms in the story, it is a symbolic realm that deeply affects "meaning" in Alizadeh's view. As mentioned above , the destruction of the linear course of the narrative in the story, affects the linguistic structure of Alizadeh and shows the linguistic reality before the author's consciousness.
The novel Edrissis' House, always depicts a few unfinished and wandering stories, the realistic appearance of which contains analytical and obscure signs of the past. This is the realm of signs that leads the nests and the amalgam to the language. In other words, this emotional and fragmented dimension of language is fluctuating, it requires identity and signification for itself, and it puts the subject's consciousness in suspense, so that the meaning is not of the material and conscious type, but based on the inner motivation and drive of production. Thus, the unveiling of emotional and emotional structures and the penetration into the inner layers of motivational language, a reflection of the field. It is a language that has been suppressed and needs to return. Alizadeh prioritizes the nature of language and re-represents its nature to provide the reader with the conditions for understanding and recognizing it. In fact, Alizadeh shares her experiences in the context of narrative and social contexts - which also include language itself. Retrieves - gives meaning and, by searching for intra-cultural links, shows semio-semantic functions for textual structures. Thus, in semiotic analysis of Alizadeh's text, the signifiers lose their order and become dynamic and irregular to evoke the return of the blind or the "command of oppression." Hence, the suppression of female mental beauty shows the focus and symbolic structure of Alizadeh's language. This process itself becomes the originator of language. A language keeps emotions stored and registered in the subconscious layers of meaning. A language in which the interaction with the environment takes the form of unconscious reactions. In the story of the Edrissis' House, Alizadeh, amid its sharp and biting realism, is deeply influenced by the field of symbolism, because the symbols transform its subjects. The emotional burden of the narrative language becomes more and more imposed on readers.
The novel of Edrissis' House is the story of the Tsarist Russian Bolshevik Revolution, which illustrates these two linguistic areas well. And the position of Alizadeh's heroes is manifested not only in language but also in physical motivations. In this story, the environmental space of the Edrissis' House represents the symbolic space of language, which dominates the ample space and profoundly influences the process of signification. In fact, according to Alizadeh, language as a social act necessarily has these two tendencies of symbolism and semiotics because these two linguistic domains produce meaning. Therefore, according to Alizadeh, this matter and the feminine (symbolic) domain is the reproductive text that forms the masculine (symbolic and lawful) matter of the apparent text and precedes the cultural, social and historical rules. The subject of Alizadeh, inspired by her feelings and energy in the heart of nature and the unconscious, creates a system of signification and discourse. Overall, the linguistic signs in this story are unstable, repressed, spontaneous, and emotional. This rupture reproduces the symbolism of "meaning" and, according to Kristeva, is revolutionary in the realm of signification and semantics. Hence, language and subjectivity are intertwined for Alizadeh’s point of view. For this reason, the realm of symbolism is the style and representation of unwanted signification.
, Parsa Yaghoobi Janbeh Saraee,
Volume 13, Issue 50 (5-2020)
Abstract
Considered as the climax of the text-narrative, the ending of a text often includes the resolution. However, depending on the dominant epistemology of the text and the status of textual subjects, the ending can also lead to other implications. Among classical Persian texts, the endings of some mystical texts, including the ghazals in Dīvān-e Šams, are distinctive. In this paper, the endings of the ghazals in Dīvān-e Šams have been interpreted in a descriptive-analytic way. The analysis showed that the narrator-lover of the ghazals, in line with the epistemology of the text, appears as the temporal subject of the text at the beginning, but rejects the role at the end and by employing silent speech acts, retracts to the prelinguistic world. In other words, in nearly most of the ghazals the narrator-lover represents the anxiety and longing for the lost unity at the beginning, but in the end, by employing two sets of silent speech acts (“silence as not speaking”, and “silence as speaking for other”), renounce to the present moment. Therefore, the studied ghazals do not come to an end and by using a circular structure, they perplex the reader-participant with an unfinished experience, allowing the reader to feel as part of the represented experience.
Volume 14, Issue 4 (10-2023)
Abstract
The present article aims to analysis Rumi's discourse in Shams's Ghazaliyat based on "Interpersonal Transcendence" within the framework of Halliday's role orientation. In studying and examining the texts, what is important is to understand the message and the author's main purpose of writing that text. In literary texts, the speaker's meaning is not always what it seems to the audience at first glance. Rather, concepts and layers of hidden meaning are brought behind the apparent words that contain the main purpose of the author. Reaching the author's intellectual world and worldview creates a deep and different mental space for the reader. This research answers these questions, how is Halliday's role-oriented systematic order efficient in the analysis of literary texts. In the interpersonal trans-role, how to deal with a larger structure than the text, and the possibility of analyzing the text is created. The hypothesis of the research is that the transpersonal role increases the interaction between the speaker and the audience and creates a more open space for discourse analysis. The statistical population is ghazaliyat Shams and the method used is analytical-descriptive. This research has shown that Halliday's role-oriented systematic theory is efficient in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the text, in the discourse analysis. Based on the interpersonal role, the speaker's interaction with the audience and the characteristics of Shams's ghazaliyat have been determined, and the possibility of discourse analysis has been established.
Sepide Aghababaei Roodbari, Jalil Moshayedi, Hassan Haidary, Mehrdad Akbari Gandomani,
Volume 15, Issue 57 (7-2022)
Abstract
Simin Behbahani, Hossein Manzavi, and Mohammad Ali Bahmani, together forming the new Persian Ghazal (short lyric poem) triangle, made significant changes in contemporary Persian Ghazal. Iranian poetry and prose quickly incorporated symbolism into their poetry and prose as one of the essential schools of modern literature. In this study, the researchers have analyzed about 400 symbols in the new Ghazal of the mentioned poets, according to Mahmoud Fotouhi's division of symbols into three categories: micro-, macro-, and structural symbols. They include the analysis of statistics and frequency of symbols, the origins, the concepts, the factors of creation, and the analysis of samples. Among the 326 micro-symbols studied, nature with 73% is the most important source, with a frequency of 326 applications. There are about 14% human symbols and about 11% human-made structures. The Ghazals of the period make little use of macrosymbols. Nevertheless, the organic symbols that have developed into a new art form in contemporary literature appear frequently in Ghazals of Simin, appearing 69 times, making her work distinguishably different from others.
Extended Abstract
Introduction
Symbolism is based on axes such as ambiguity and polysemy, and symbols are signifiers that, in addition to explicit concepts, also refer to implicit concepts. The French philosopher and writer Paul Ricoeur, in defining the symbol, says that every signifying structure, has not only the specific and direct primary and literal meaning, but also another meaning which is indirect, secondary and virtual, and this other meaning is obtained only through the primary meaning (Ricoeur, 1974/a, p. 12).
In contemporary literature, symbolism is one of the important schools that has quickly opened its place in Persian poetry and prose. New poetry has been a pioneer in this field with the initiation of Nima Yooshij, and as a result, classical poetry, including the form of ghazal and then the new ghazal, has seen such developments.
Simin Behbahani, Hossein Monzavi and Mohammad Ali Bahmani, as the three sides of the new ghazal’s triangle, made fundamental changes in contemporary ghazal. Among these changes, these poets approached symbolism by implicit expression of political and social issues in order to avoid the consequences of frankness and clarity of speech.
Symbols are generally divided into artistic and non-artistic ones according to the nature of their function. Rhetoricians divide symbols into different categories in terms of their innovation or circulation, the most important of which are conventional or public symbols and individual, personal or innovative symbols. Mahmoud Fotouhi considers the relation of symbol with the texture of poetry to be studied in three parts with a structural and conceptual view. In this article, the authors have analyzed the symbols in the new ghazal, according to its three categories in the book of “rhetoric of image” with the titles of micro-symbols, macro-symbols and organic symbols.
Methodology
The methodology of the current study is based on the nature of data in accordance with the descriptive and analytical model and the purpose of selecting this model was to identify the symbols and then to analyze the content from statistical, stylistic, structural, aesthetic and categorical perspective.
Results
By studying the collection of ghazals of the pioneers of new ghazal, Simin Behbahani, Hossein Manzavi and Mohammad Ali Bahmani, the authors have extracted about 400 symbols and analyzed them in three sections of micro-symbols, macro-symbols and organic symbols based on Mahmoud Fotouhi's categorization. And in fact, this article looks at categories that include: statistical and frequency analysis of symbols, their origins, their concepts, innovations, factors of creation, comparison and analysis of samples and data. In the study of micro-symbols, with a frequency of 326 applications, the element of nature with about 73%, has the most important origin. Human symbols with about 14% and human handicrafts with about 11% are in the next stages. Macro-symbols have been used sparingly in the ghazals of this period, but the organic symbols that have formed a new artistic form in contemporary literature, have a significant frequency in the ghazal of Simin Behbahani with a frequency of 69 items. It can be considered as one of the special features and distinct characteristics of her ghazals.
Conclusion
The result of this article can be divided into four categories:
1. Origin: Organic symbols have more than two origins, human and nature, but micro-symbols of this period are notable in terms of their high frequency.
a) Nature: In the study of the micro-symbols of the new ghazal, the element of nature has a more significant frequency, which has appeared respectively in Behbahani, Monzavi and Bahmani’s ghazals. Among the various elements of nature, the element of color and nature in its general meaning, and in the next stage, the element of time, are the most frequent.
b) Human: Micro-symbols with human origin of ghazals of this period are not very frequent. In this section, dominator is symbols with mythological origins and the most important reason for its emergence is the political and social content of the ghazal of this period and its goal is motivating the audience.
c) Human handicrafts: Micro-symbols of this period with the origin of human handicrafts have been found to be less frequent than other patterns. What seems remarkable in this area is the fifty percent use in Bahmani's ghazals.
2. Innovation: The micro-symbols of this period, although considered new in contemporary literature, are not personal; and symbols that are more personal, sometimes had occasional uses in the poems of others. However, in this section, the organic symbols of Simin, such as Koli, Sara, Ilkhan va Zohre, Khar haye zesht, Neyzar, etc. can be considered as personal and private symbols of the poet.
3. Concept: Symbolism in Persian poetry and literature is fundamentally different from its western version, which is based only on artistic arrangements, emphasizing on the doctrine of "art for art's sake”. In the ghazals of this period, the symbol is considered as one of the dominant artistic functions among the various forms of imagination. But of all these rhetorical techniques, none has found more anti-oppressive function.
4. Factors of creation: The factors of creating the micro-symbols of this period are mostly socio-political issues of the poet's time and artistic requirements, then intellectual, philosophical, spiritual and psychological factors. In organic symbols, domination is with socio-political factors that we sometimes see the combination of various factors in Simin's personal symbols in which both political and social issues, intellectual and philosophical ideas, even issues and psychological sufferings of this group are discussed.
Volume 17, Issue 70 (5-2020)
Abstract
Sultan Valad is one of the gifted Persian poets, but unfortunately, his poems have not been precisely studied. It seems that the beauty of Sultan Vald's Ghazals have been neglected in the light of radiance of his father. Like many other Persian texts, the Valda’s Divan does not yet have a reliable edition. By studying one of the existing poetry collection, we have shown that the edition of the Sultan Valad’s Divan is one of the essentials in the field of research. In this study, we have introduced two new Ghazals relying on the Afandi Collection, which we have described it in the article and two authentic manuscripts. We mentioned two Ghazals of Valad according to the old Afandi collection and manuscripts that were not in Valad's Divan up to now. Valad's Divan has edited by by Asghar Rabbani with the introduction of Saeed Nafisi. It is important to note, however, that Nafisi has not edited the Valad's Divan, but has published Rabbani’s edition in Iran. There are also many verses in this collection that have been removed from the printed Divan. Finally, under the heading "K" and "G", we have referred to the mistakes that occurred in the printed Divan, also many verses are re-edited according to authentic manuscripts. Considering the criticisms of the printed Divan of Sultan Valad's edited by Asghar Rabbani (Hamed) with the introduction of Saeed Nafisi, the necessity of re-edition of the Sultan Valad's Divan becomes more evident.
Volume 18, Issue 2 (9-2011)
Abstract
“Naive imagination is like a dark glass that prevent the shining lights entering the heart, but when is ripe enough become a clear glass that points those lights.”
(Ghazali, the Niche of Lights, P.73)
Iranian philosopher and educator, Abu Hamid Ghazali (1058-1111 A.D.) is the author of more than seventy books and essays on philosophy, education, mysticism, ethics, jurisprudence and dialectical theology. Throughout his works, one can easily observe that among the tools of acquiring knowledge (i.e., the senses, the imagination, and the intellect), imagination has become subject of special attention due to its capacity in recalling, analyzing, and synthesizing pre-acquired images, concepts and meanings and creating new and noble ones. Because of his unequivocal attention to imagination, instead of intellect, and the great impact imaginative thinking has had on Islamic philosophy of his times, some critics have maintained that “Islam has turned against science in twelfth century.”
This article consists of two parts. The first part deals about Ghazali’s perspective the place of imaginative faculty among the other faculties; the external faculties (i.e. the senses), the internal faculties (i.e. common-sense, imagery, memory, estimation), and the intellect and hence; it is observed that the faculty of imagination itself is a part of the internal faculties and links the external faculties with the intellect as well as comprehensive and continuous interaction with other internal faculties. Upon defining imagination, tasks and types associated with it, its priority and superiority over the intellect, the relationship between (1) the internal senses and the imagination and (2) the imagination and the intellect are addressed. In the second part, the authors follow the practical implications of such imaginative thought in Ghazali’s teaching approach. To do so, and because of the comparative analysis pursued in the article (i.e., comparing Ghazali with contemporary western educational thinker Kieran Egan) about children’s education, we concentrated on the “mythic understanding” that Egan has proposed for these ages and then, contrasted it with Ghazali’s works. The results show that as Egan, but not in such a complete and detailed form, Ghazali considered the elements of play, story, binary opposites, rhyme, rhythm, images, gossip, mystery, and metaphor in his approach. But there are no clear and sufficient evidence for other elements (i.e., joke and humor) in Ghazali’s teaching approach.
Volume 18, Issue 73 (10-2021)
Abstract
A deep understanding of literary texts strongly depends on understanding the factors that contributed to their creation. One of these factors is how an author is inspired by the intellectual poetics of other literary figures. The present study seeks to use a functional linguistic framework to investigate the influence of Shahriar’s language and mind on Hooshang Ebtehaj’s ghazals and closely analyze the latter’s tendency towards Shahriar’s poetic style. These influences can be divided into three types: imitative (based on repetition), combined (based on repetition and intra-process change), and interpretative (based on repetition and extra-process change). Our findings suggest that Ebtehaj tends towards change and creativity instead of mere imitation. The factors contributing to Ebtehaj’s inspiration from Shahriar’s poetics include his love of Shahriar and his works, the popularity of Shahriar’s works, and the role of audience as well as the historical context.
Volume 19, Issue 75 (4-2022)
Abstract
The story of Aziz and Ghazal (1914), written by Seyed Ashraf al-Din Hosseini Gilani, known as Nasim-Shomal, is a not well known romance in which is narrated the love story of two Aleppo lovers from two hostile families. The content similarity of this story with Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare's play encouraged us to review and analyze the similarities and differences between the two works by considering the adaptation theories as well as the analysis of common style and context in translations and adaptations of Qajar era. The descriptive-analytical study of this story and the many content and structural similarities between the two works assumed that Aziz and Ghazal have been a free adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, but since there is no evidence that Seyed AShraf al-Din was fluent in English, it seems that he has achieved translations of Romeo and Juliet, then he has created Romeo and Juliet for satisfaction of Iranian readers by using the style of adaptive translations of his time such as adding poetry to prose, using proverbs and sometimes slang catchphrase and socio-cultural discourse.
Volume 19, Issue 76 (4-2022)
Abstract
A deep understanding of literary texts strongly depends on understanding the factors that contributed to their creation. One of these factors is how an author is inspired by the intellectual poetics of other literary figures. The present study seeks to use a functional linguistic framework to investigate the influence of Shahriar’s language and mind on Hooshang Ebtehaj’s ghazals and closely analyze the latter’s tendency towards Shahriar’s poetic style. These influences can be divided into three types: imitative (based on repetition), combined (based on repetition and intra-process change), and interpretative (based on repetition and extra-process change). Our findings suggest that Ebtehaj tends towards change and creativity instead of mere imitation. The factors contributing to Ebtehaj’s inspiration from Shahriar’s poetics include his love of Shahriar and his works, the popularity of Shahriar’s works, and the role of audience as well as the historical context.
Volume 28, Issue 3 (9-2021)
Abstract
Feelings of spiritual hollowness and fading away spirituality are characteristics of the present century. Also, the emergence of false spiritual schools has led to the collapse of spiritual life. Since the innate needs of man can be met only with true spirituality and obedience to the commands and prohibitions of the God almighty. And by obeying those commands and prohibitions, spirituality takes root in human beings and the thirst of human nature will be quenched by the refreshing spirituality hence, taking care of spiritual life is one of the essential anthropological necessities of human beings. The purpose of this research is to analyze Imam Mohammad Ghazali's views on "spiritual life" and the study of the components of this life from his perspective. To achieve this goal, there is need to examine and explain the verses of Holy Qur'an and refer to the interpretations on the one hand and explaining Ghazali's approach in the books Al-Ehya Ulom al-din and Kimiya-e- Saadat. This is done by a descriptive method and the analysis Al-Ghazali's views in the form of documents. The result of research is aimed at: promoting the knowledge of God and institutionalizing duties of worship and creating motivation for the growth of genuine religious spirituality. Among the feasible successes is the allegiance to the prophetic tradition, repentance and return to glorious God, cultivating virtues and repelling vices and fighting vile desires.
Volume 29, Issue 3 (9-2022)
Abstract
Attention to child and childhood has existed throughout history as pre-sociological paradigms. The present study tries to retrospectively examine Ghazali’s views on child and childhood, and measure the importance he gave to this issue. Al-Ghazali is one of the well-known thinkers of the fifth century AH, whose views on education and divine-human thought have greatly influenced the future. This study is conducted using the documentary method. The studied documents included primary and secondary sources. The results show that Ghazali, while paying attention to child and childhood, considers the nature of children to be pure and innocent. These children are understood under the banner of two institutions of family and "high school" (school), both of which are responsible for raising and educating children. The child has characteristics such as weakness of intellect, imitation and imperfection, which are placed in the process of socialization on the one hand by adults with the power of education and discipline. Al-Ghazali considers the beginning of childhood from the time of sperm formation to the end of puberty for girls and the age of sixteen for boys, from which they can enter into married life, in other words, the world of adulthood. The findings led the researcher to conclude that al-Ghazali, despite his use of the concept of "child," focused on children-boys rather than children-girls.