Rumi's Mysticism in the Field of Religious and Mystical Experiences

Rastgar, Marziyeh; Sajadi, Ali Mohamad; Taheri, Ghodrat Allah

doi:10.22051/jml.2023.42491.2422

Document Type : Scientific-research

Authors

¹ PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

² Retired Professor of Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

³ Associate Professor of Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22051/jml.2023.42491.2422

Abstract

Religion, as one of the most important fields of knowledge, has different aspects, including the esoteric and inner fields. In modern mystical studies, esoteric or personal experiences about God are interpreted as “religious and mystical experience”. In this research, we will examine Molavi's perspective based on new theories that are in the field of mystical studies, and the main issue will be the search and analysis of Molavi's mystical experiences and their literary reflection in his expression. It seems that since Rumi possesses his own style and ideas in monastic mysticism, avocation mysticism, and theoretical mysticism, he has undoubtedly gone through vast mystical experiences and has artistically recreated these pure, complex, and astonishing experiences in the form of language and literary writing. Mowlavi's mystical and intuitive experiences have been revealed in his sonnets in a more unmediated and direct form, and with mediation in the layers of Masnavi's mystical allegories and in the situations that the powerful attractions of the discourse have brought the scope of his words to the unconscious realms. Some of Rumi's mystical experiences can be analyzed in terms of their form and structure of representation adopting the framework of William James' analyses of mystical experiences. In this research, we have examined the principle of experientiality in Rumi's works, particularly in the story of King and the Maid, based on James' theoretical framework, and we have shown its structural similarity with the experiences presented by James.

Keywords

20.1001.1.20089384.1401.14.31.5.6

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Volume 14, Issue 31
winter 2023
December 2022
Pages 123-155

Rumi's Mysticism in the Field of Religious and Mystical Experiences

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Volume 14, Issue 31winter 2023December 2022Pages 123-155

Volume 14, Issue 31
winter 2023
December 2022
Pages 123-155