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A study of the allegories of "unity of existence" in the quatrains of Najafi Esterabadi

Document Type : Research Paper

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10.22059/jpl.2024.371850.2232

Abstract

The meaning and concept of unity of existence has been of interest to mystical poetry since ancient times and before Ibn Arabi, although they did not use the specific term of unity of existence. Abu Sa'id Kamal al-Din Najafi Estarabadi, known as Sahabi, is a poet and mystic of the tenth century AH and one of the philosophical quatrain poets who has expressed the mystical-philosophical thought of Ibn Arabi's unity of existence with the language of metaphor. The present study is the result of examining 480 quatrains out of 4000 quatrains of Sahabi Estarabadi, which reflected the issue of unity of existence in some way, and among them, the quatrains that expressed the mystical metaphors of the unity of existence more clearly were separated and analyzed. It was determined that Sahabi used the metaphors of " particle (light) and sun", "shadow", "sea", "image and mirror", "illusion", "squint", "dream", "number", "alif and letters" and "color and colorlessness" to make the idea of unity of existence tangible and portrayed his mystical and intellectual themes in the best possible way for the audience. Estarabadi also used other metaphors to express the unity of existence, but he refrained from mentioning them because there were only one or two quatrains of his poetry as examples. The research method is library-based and analysis of Estarabadi's quatrains, and the aim is to introduce Najafi Estarabadi as one of the greatest quatrain poets of Persian literature to the society, and to access his philosophical thoughts by examining the quatrains that have reached us from him.

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Persian Literature
Volume 14, Issue 1 - Serial Number 33
September 2024
Pages 179-206
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