Denouncing Superstitions in Shaikh Bahayi’s “The Advice of the Sage through the Language of the Cat and the Mouse”
Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts
Fateme Emami
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Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch
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Keywords: Sufism, شیخ بهایی, پند اهل دانش, متصوفه, مبارزه با خرافات, Shaikh Bahayi, The Advice of the Sage, fighting superstition,
Abstract :
In his allegorical tale “The Advice of the Sage through the Language of the Cat and the Mouse” Shaikh Bahayi fights all types of superstitions, and this paper tries to study his tale and his attitude towards superstitions. The researcher believes Shaikh Bahayi denounces indirectly the common superstitions of the Sufis. He instructs the young people to follow their common sense and to refuse superstitions. This paper is to trace back the origin of superstitions and its different types in the ideas of Sufis, and how Shaikh Bahayi redirects the people to rationalism, the source of knowledge that had been seemingly declining in that period of time.
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