Searching Allegorical Tales with Animal Characters in Alluma' Fil-tasawwuf Abu Nasr Al-sarraj
Subject Areas : Research Allegory in Persian Language and Literature
habib kargar
1
(
Islamic Azad University
Saveh Branch
)
Abbasali vafaie
2
(
2. Professor of Allameh Tabatabaie, Tehran, Iran.
)
Alireza Shabanlu
3
(
Assistant professor of humanities and cultural studies institute, Tehran, Iran
)
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Abstract :
The tales that they are the base of allegory has had a very important role in Sufism training. An example of these tales is some ones that an animal is a character of the tale. In this study, these types of tales was considered in Alluma' Fil-tasawwuf book written by Abu Nasr Al-sarraj tusi(378). These kinds of Alluma' s tales are divisible to three general assortments: 1- real tales: these tales have taken place in the world or could have taken place. 2: fictional tales which were created by Sufism's fictions. 3: symbolic tales which the animal has a symbolic role in them. This type of tales is an endogenous event and it is the result of theosophist's subconscious. The main purpose of using all the stories in the texts of Sufism is to understand better the mystical material and to facilitate the teaching through the expression of the tale.
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