Review of Therapeutic Motifs in Mathnawi Narratives

Abstract

This study is related to those narratives of Mathnawi which contain therapeutic points. For this purpose, the authors discovered the therapeutic and medical motifs from all Mathnawi narratives. These statements are like a medic's prescription, regardless of the narrator's name. This study showed that Rumi was familiar with medical concepts and used therapeutic propositions to induce meaning. This study showed that Rumi was familiar with medical concepts and used therapeutic propositions to induce meaning. The poet has emerged as a physician among the stories of Mathnawi. He describes physical illnesses, especially mental illnesses, and ways to treat them. The main therapeutic topics discussed in Mathnawi are related to temperament, pulmonology, and herbal medicine and treatment methods. In many narratives, the main character is involved in a physical or mental illness that has been improved by a physical or spiritual physician.

Keywords

• physical and mental diseases
• spiritual mathnawi
• jalaluddin rumi
• medical motif