Investigation of modernity and thoughts of Attar and Molavi

Subject Areas : Comparative (with literary and artistic features)

maryam barzegar ¹ , Amir Esmail Azar ² , hamidreza dibaeikho ³

1 - Assistant Professor of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Ph.D. student of Persian language and literature, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Department, Tehran

Received: 2023-02-21 Accepted : 2024-10-15 Published : 2024-09-25

Keywords: Modernity, Attar, Molavi, &lt, inside (self), outside, tradition.,

Abstract :

In the 14th century, Europe left the Middle Ages behind and based its life on human wisdom and empiricism. This process was called humanism. This thought went through four periods of Renaissance, religious reformation or Lutherism, Enlightenment and industrial revolution until it became modern in the late 19th century. Modernity separated man from inside himself and turned him outside. While mystics such as Attar and Maulvi tried to bring man back to God's nature and return to himself. It seems that many of the disorders in the world today are placed in this conflict. The purpose of the article is to find a way that can find an affinity between the thought of modernity and the thinking of Attar and Molvi, so as to be an opening for the problems of modern man. The research has been done in a descriptive-analytical and library style. For man, modernity meant emptiness, loneliness, confusion, cutting from within himself and seeking happiness outside himself. In Elahinamah, Attar considers the wishes of six king's sons as material (external) wishes: (in search of fairies, witchcraft, jam, water of life, Solomon's ring, alchemy). While he believes that the center of gravity of a person's desires is inside him. Rumi finds the whole being of man in his "inside". The inside that has a return to excellence. The thoughts of Attar and Rumi, which are in opposition to the thoughts of modernity, can be a way to free modern man from the impasse of absurdity and absurdity..