From the Language of Fire to the Language of Light (The way of the Development of Mystical Prose)
After the formation of asceticism under the influence of numerous factors and causes, the unduly fattened movement of Sufism tried to merge the elixir of love into the copper of asceticism. As a result, the mystical prose developed and grew out of the ascetic prose. This prose is a branch of religio...
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| description | After the formation of asceticism under the influence of numerous factors and causes, the unduly fattened movement of Sufism tried to merge the elixir of love into the copper of asceticism. As a result, the mystical prose developed and grew out of the ascetic prose. This prose is a branch of religious (theological) prose which is regarded as one of the widely used prose styles of the 1st and 2nd Islamic era manifested in different forms of exegeses, rhetoric, tradition and letter writing. In this article, it’s tried to describe how mystical prose developed out of the ascetic prose along with the discussion of its causes, famous authors, and their works. Then it will be discussed how love found its way into mystical prose. After outlining the most important features of the mystical prose, we will see that both Sufism and Asceticism movements and their relevant prose style have been the result of dialectic dependence on tradition and escape from it. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7f137862db3c4988ba875bb7d05219002022-12-21T18:51:17ZfasAlzahra Universityادبیات عرفانی2008-93842538-19972012-03-01479710910.22051/jml.2014.108108From the Language of Fire to the Language of Light (The way of the Development of Mystical Prose)Habib Ollah Abbasi0Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Tarbiat Moallem UniversityAfter the formation of asceticism under the influence of numerous factors and causes, the unduly fattened movement of Sufism tried to merge the elixir of love into the copper of asceticism. As a result, the mystical prose developed and grew out of the ascetic prose. This prose is a branch of religious (theological) prose which is regarded as one of the widely used prose styles of the 1st and 2nd Islamic era manifested in different forms of exegeses, rhetoric, tradition and letter writing. In this article, it’s tried to describe how mystical prose developed out of the ascetic prose along with the discussion of its causes, famous authors, and their works. Then it will be discussed how love found its way into mystical prose. After outlining the most important features of the mystical prose, we will see that both Sufism and Asceticism movements and their relevant prose style have been the result of dialectic dependence on tradition and escape from it.https://jml.alzahra.ac.ir/article_108_f5abbf26e4a722e6b5a7d8c2dbff07b4.pdfkeywords: sufismasceticismmysticismprose |
| spellingShingle | Habib Ollah Abbasi From the Language of Fire to the Language of Light (The way of the Development of Mystical Prose) ادبیات عرفانی keywords: sufism asceticism mysticism prose |
| title | From the Language of Fire to the Language of Light
(The way of the Development of Mystical Prose) |
| title_full | From the Language of Fire to the Language of Light
(The way of the Development of Mystical Prose) |
| title_fullStr | From the Language of Fire to the Language of Light
(The way of the Development of Mystical Prose) |
| title_full_unstemmed | From the Language of Fire to the Language of Light
(The way of the Development of Mystical Prose) |
| title_short | From the Language of Fire to the Language of Light
(The way of the Development of Mystical Prose) |
| title_sort | from the language of fire to the language of light the way of the development of mystical prose |
| topic | keywords: sufism asceticism mysticism prose |
| url | https://jml.alzahra.ac.ir/article_108_f5abbf26e4a722e6b5a7d8c2dbff07b4.pdf |
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