Investigating the Components of Discourse of Social Agents in Attar’s Tazkerat al-Owliya Based on the Mystical Role of Fazil bin Ayyaz and The Emphasis on Van Leeuwen's Model

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Fereshteh Naseri ¹ (Department of Persian Language and Literature , Yadegar-e- Imam Khomeini(RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2021-09-17 Accepted : 2021-09-17 Published : 2021-09-23

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Abstract :

Among the works of mystical literature, Tazkerat al-Owliya, as one of the valuable works of Attar Neyshabouri to deal with the situations, thoughts and speeches of mystics and Sufi elders allocates a wide range of social relations. Attar's emphasis on this issue causes social agents to display their work in different ways. These representations are purposeful and in order to instill Attar's mystical ideology on the audience. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the discourse of Fazil bin Ayyaz based on Van Leeuwen's model and to examine the representation of social agents in it. Since Attar in this story seeks to transcend knowledge and show the spiritual status of Fazil by fading the discourse system of the thief and the ruler and also highlighting the discourse system of the mystic; Therefore, the analysis of Fazil's discourse as a discourse arising from the social strata of mystics at that time reveals new results. Therefore, in the present study, we decided to express the relationship between activations and passivations of social agents, to find out how Attar, in a stylistic creativity, familiarize the audience with the names of individuals, groups, places and times that social agents have an active role in it and what measures have been taken to determine the role and activation of social agents regarding the action of Fazil ibn Ayyaz and to make passive about the action of his followers, especially Harun al-Rasheed. This issue will be conducted with a literary and mystical analysis approach.