Document Type : Scientific-research
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1 Ph.D. candidate in Mystical Literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.
2 Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.
Abstract
Arthur Geffery Believes that the word "Iblis' is a borrowing from of the Greek word "diablos', which was introduced into the Arabic language by Aramaic or Arabic-speaking Christians. The Sufi understanding of the concept of Iblis is not compatible with the mental schemas of the jurists and consequently not with the masses. Iblis is separated from divine time (lahut) and wanders in nasut time (the material world), connecting the eternal time with the material thime, and the story becomes temorally distorted. These stories gragually shed their historical narrative skin and approach fictional narratives. The figure of Iblis in the stories of Tadhkerat al-Awliya, like the events of certian, disrupts the story's equilibrium and leads to a kind of imbalance. Attar employs a mystical and jurisprudential perspective with two different voices and meaning to portary a single character (Iblis), with these two voices having a conversational relationship. These two voces are evident in most of the stories of Tazkirat al-Awliya. The narration in the stories of this work, not only lends an artistic aspect to ordinary speech, but ix also a means of persuading the audience. In these fictional narratives, the person in the act of narration becomes a character. The aim of this study is to explian the characterization of Iblis (in the stories of Tazkerat al-Awliya) in the two opposing aspects of hero and anti-hero in the act of storyelling.
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