Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī (Jul 2015)

Power and Spiritual reign of holy fathers in opinion of Sheikh Ahmad Jām

  • Gholamreza Mastali Parsa,
  • Hamed Shams

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 62
pp. 59 – 80

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From a long time ago, the relationship between the attitude of the artist with his language including both literary and non-literary languages, has beenof interest toscientists of stylistic Some researchers have considered the recognition of tenors (of similes and metaphors) in literary works as one of the most important ways of finding the relation between form and content. Since the point of similarity is derived from the tenor, therefore it is important for the analysis of the artist's Attitude.In thisarticle, we will attempt to investigate the impact of the concept of power and spiritual reign of holy people which is one of the themes of Ons-Al-Taebin in Sheikh-e Jām’s images. For this purpose, in the bigining, we apply method of visual clusters to extract and collect images of reign and court in Shekh’s similes and then we will show that these images have been repeated in different parts and pages of the book. Also, the impactofPower and Spiritual reign of holy fathers is seen in images of animals and in the vehicles of the book and we will show them and their repetition or frequency in the variouspages andchaptersofbooks. For instance, we survey Sheikh-e Jām’s similes firstly and then we will survey the obvious expression of this content in word of Sheikh in Ons-Al-Taebin and in this way, the relation between form and content will be obvious. After all these stages, we will compare some of the instances of the Maghamat-e Jhende peel that they are in the form ofanecdotes andgreatnessSheikhandare connected to this concept on the other hand. Finally it will be shown the Legends Sdyd al-dyn Ghazni in this regard, is rooted in the truth of the thought and life of Shekh-e Jām.

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