Mysticism Studies in Literature is an open-access, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published by Allameh Tabataba’i University, the leading university in Humanities and Social Sciences in Iran. Mysticism Studies in Literature has been established to provide an intellectual platform for national and international researchers working on issues related to mysticism studies.

To allow for easy and worldwide access to the most updated research findings, the journal is set to be an open-access journal. 

The journal charges two million Rials to compensate a part of the arbitration fee, and if the article is accepted, additonally four million Rials will be charged from the authors for a part of the costs of processing the articles, the rest of the costs will be financially supported by Allameh Tabatabai University.

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The analysis of paradox (shath) language in based on the dynamic discourse pattern in sharh shathiyat

Zahra eftekhar; Hosein aghahosseini; Masoud algooneh juneghani

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 11-38

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.74474.1127

Abstract
  One of the significant parts of the mystical language is mystical paradoxes called Shath. It is possible to analyze mystical paradoxes using the model proposed in this research based on dynamic discourse. This pattern shows that one of the reasons for violating the norms of language in mystical paradoxes ...  Read More

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Colorless and unmarked; Beloved's experience in a poem by Rumi

DAVUOD SPARHAM; saeed mazroeian

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 39-66

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.81284.1129

Abstract
  Persian mystical ghazal is a combination of earthly romantic and transcendental mystical situations that the poet tries to present to his audience through linguistic arrangements and imaginary images. Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi is the greatest mystic ghazal writer in the history of Persian mystic poetry, ...  Read More

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The Romantic Gaze: The Romantic Gaze: the phenomenon of the visual in the Majnun and Leyla Painting of Jami’s Haft Awrang, the Mashhad School in Comparison with Poetic Narratives of Jami and Attar

Monireh Panjtani; Mohammad Khazaei

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 67-114

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.80890.1126

Abstract
  The romantic gaze and perspective of lovers, especially in the tale of Layla and Majnun, is a recurring theme in Persian poetry. This article compares the poetic themes of Attar and Jami with the visual representation in Jami’s “Haft Orang” manuscript. It examines the similarities and ...  Read More

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Analysis of the archetype of "Self" In Suhrawardi's epistles

Elnaz Khojaste Zonoozi

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 115-140

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.81573.1136

Abstract
  Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of the analytical psychology, is one of the structuralism psychologists whose most famous term in his theory is called "Archetype". An archetype is an eternal image of inherited ideas in the collective unconscious mind, which is as old as human history. Among the types of ...  Read More

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The semiotics of place in Shams's sonnets

farideh Davoudimoghadam

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 141-166

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.80476.1120

Abstract
  Place semiotics is the explanation and interpretation of symbolic concepts and meanings of place that connect cultural, historical, and emotional associations to a specific discourse space. Through the experiences, memories, and narratives we create, places are mixed with different meanings and sometimes ...  Read More

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A look at the event in Mysticism and Sufism

Majid Sarmadi; Parvin Naghdi

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 167-192

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.79532.1107

Abstract
  As a social institution, the Sufism community has special literature and rituals, rites, and rituals that the implementation of these rules and regulations governing in monasteries is necessary and mandatory for the disciples and even elders, and mentors. One of these rites and rituals is event telling. ...  Read More

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Attar's interpretations of the story of Yusuf (AS) and Rostam in Diwan

vahid mobarak

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 193-222

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.72848.1084

Abstract
  Its hint and application is image-creating and causes a change of style and creation of a personal style. Religious, historical, mythological and epic ideas and points are the mouthpieces of poets' allusions, and Attar is one of the poets who has many religious allusions, but he has not stopped paying ...  Read More

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mystical themes in Hossein Monzavi's sonnets

hosna mohamadzade; reza rouhani

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 223-256

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.78701.1105

Abstract
  Hossein Monzavi is a poet who has brought major changes in the field of Ghazal and is considered among the innovators of this field. An important part of his thoughts regarding God, man and the universe is hidden in the depths of isolated sonnets, but factors such as the lack of mysticism in the contemporary ...  Read More

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Rebuke of Companions and Encourage of Antagonist, Analysis and Structural Criticism of Some Chunks in Sufi Anecdotes

Hossein Mohammadi; Afsaneh Hasanzadeh Dastjerdi

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 257-292

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.80007.1111

Abstract
  Among the Persian texts, we encounter a few anecdotes that, although in structure, they can be equated with other similar anecdotes, have different themes. The theme of these anecdotes is blaming one of the properties of religion. These anecdotes are related to time periods and different speakers and ...  Read More

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A survey on spiritual life and mystical views of Abū Mohammad Al-Murta`esh

Vahid Mahmoudi

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 293-314

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.76391.1098

Abstract
  Abū Muhammad Al- Murta`esh is one of the famous Sufis of the 3rd and 4th centuries of Hijri. He was a peasant born from the people of Neyshābūr, who after repenting and turning to an ascetic life, was educated by the great sheikhs of the Malamatis and the school of Baghdad, namely Abū Hafṣ Haddād ...  Read More

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A comparative study of the seven mystical behavior of the military seven figures with the seven journeys (seven planets) of the story of the Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

MAHDIE MANSORI; somayye khademi

Volume 3, Issue 1 , November 2024, Pages 315-349

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.80360.1117

Abstract
  The story of Haftapikar Nizami, and the novel Shazdeh Kochlu, are among the valuable works in which special storytelling has been done. The present research has analyzed the rules governing the structure of the two stories in an analytical-comparative way, firstly by explaining the fictional elements ...  Read More

Colorless and Unmarked; Beloved's Experience in a Poem by Rumi

DAVUOD SPARHAM; saeed mazroeian

Articles in Press, Corrected Proof, Available Online from 07 October 2024

https://doi.org/10.22054/msil.2024.17854

Abstract
  Persian mystical ghazal represents a blending of earthly romance and transcendent mystical experiences that the poet seeks to express to their audience through the use of linguistic arrangements and imaginative imagery. Indeed, Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi, also known as Rumi, is considered the greatest ...  Read More