Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Faculty member
2 PhD student of Persian language and literature at Allameh Tabatabai University
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 mystic ghazal writer in the history of Persian mysticism. He has perfected the art of conveying his spiritual experiences and insights through the form of the ghazal. In mystical poetry, the beloved often possesses characteristics that are borrowed from traditional earthly love poems, which can lead to confusion in the audience regarding whether the love expressed is for an earthly or heavenly object of affection. By identifying the different types of beloveds found in Persian poetry based on the existential fields they represent and using an appropriate research method that studies the experiencer's position, the subject of the experience, the content of the experience, and the linguistic structure of the narrative, all in a structural relationship, it may be possible to overcome the confusion caused by the blending of earthly and heavenly love themes in mystical poetry. In this study, the different types of beloveds in Persian poetry were first introduced based on their existence. Subsequently, one of Rumi's sonnets was analyzed in the proposed structural framework. By demonstrating the relationship between the experiencer's position, the subject of the experience, the content of the experience, and the linguistic structure of the narrative, it was concluded that the beloved depicted in the analyzed sonnet is "colorless and unmarked", symbolizing earthly love with theological dimensions.
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