Mytho-Mystic Literature
Year:2009 | Volume:4 | Issue:13|Papers Count:8

Dreaming is an imaginative process of the mind that occurs during sleep. It is a mysterious and unknown phenomenon; however, its interpretation is a part of all cultures. In Persian culture, dream plays a significant role and its effect can be observed in the lives of Persians.The present research investigates the concept of dream and dreaming in Shahnameh, as the symbol and indicator of Persian identity and culture.

Allegory is a form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, and political significance.Attar and Mowlana Jalal-al Din Rumi, the two famous Persian poets, have employed allegory in their poems. The present article, by looking at the role of allegory in the works of Attar and Mowlana Jalal-Din Rumi, tries to show the social conditions in which they lived.

The tale of Siyavash and Sudabeh is one of the stories of Shahnameh. In Zoroastrian tradition, Siyavash is a symbol of innocence and goodness and vice versa Sudabeh is a symbol of evil and beastly passion. But, according to Mithraism, they are mutually interdependent.This article will analyze this relationship based on a new interpretation and with respect to the doctrines of Islamic mysticism.

The Turkish baths are quite identical to Iranian baths regarding their architectural strictures and institutions. Hamamm id often present in the works of Mowlana Jalal-al Din Rumi.According to the scripts and old tales, he spent most of his time meditating in baths.In his poetry, espicelly Masnavi Manavi, Mowlana refers to dallak (the person who helped wash clients by soaping and scrubbing their bodies), apodyterium (changing room), tepidarium (heated room), caldarium (hot bathing room) and etc. The present article entertains this very subject.

According to Ibn Arabi, annihilation (Fana) in God is an ontological point of view; there is nothing except God and all things are mortal. The holy traveler (salek), in the end of his/her travel, annihilates in God; there is only one truth, that is God, and all things are figurative beings.Based on a prophetic parol (Hadith), "he who knows himself, knows his Lord". The present article tries to study the relationship between annihilation (Fana) and self-knowledge in Ibn Arabi 's thoughts.

Myth is one of the most precious treasures of human being, and it is the resource of many cultures. Myth is firmly connected with literature. It is claimed that, in the modem age, contemporary literature doesn't create new myths, but rather, it merely recreates the old and known myths. ,This paper attempts to consider the relationship between myth and literature in the poems of Iranian contemporary poets such as MahdI Akhavan Sales, Sohrab Sepehri, and Ahmad Shamlu, and compare their approach with Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, in his work, "The Mexican Dream, Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations".

In Persian Language, the greatest part of mystic literature is presented in the form of tales. The teaching of mystic manners, rules of ascetic disciplines, internal rules and etc. are entertained in these tales. Mowlana Jalal-al Din Rumi, in his works, especially Masnavi Manavi, has narrated these stories.The present article, by considering the role of the mystic tales in the works of Mowlana Jalal-al Din RumI, tries to show the changes and improvisations that he has made in them.