Maulana Khalid Naqshbandi's Persian Written Works and His Role in Developing Persian Language and Literature Out of Iranian Borders

Abstract

Different researches about Mysticism usually take the mystical and religious function of this subject into consideration. However mystical and abbatial subjects have had different social, political, and literary functions further than religious functions. This article by considering the literary application of Naqshbandi mysticism wants to pay attention to another nonreligious function of this subject. For this reason, we have taken Maulana Khalid Naqshbandi's Persian written works and his effects on developing the Persian language out of Iranian borders. This research, firstly, in a descriptive and analytical way clarifies the reason and backgrounds in which Maulana Khalid uses the Persian language in his letters and works. Then he considers the publication domain of these letters to different parts of the Islamic world. Moreover, the social status of the audience of Maulana Khalid's letters and their role in the republishing of these letters outside the borders of Iran have been studied.

Keywords

• mysticism
• persian language
• written works
• kurdestan naqshbandieh
• maulana khalid