Comparative Study of Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī's Thoughts and Existentialist Thinking
Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism
1 - استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تبریز
Keywords: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Ethics and faith, Existentialism, Individuality,
Abstract :
One of the important schools of continental philosophy in the 20th century is Existentialism that with due cares for such issues as humanexistence, individuality, ethics, and faith it has a lot of similarities with Iranian mystical and Sufi literature.Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, the great mystic and poet of Iran, is among the important representatives of the mystical and Sufi literature of Iran that his system of initiative and innovative ingenuity of his mystical and philosophic thinking is similar to that ofexistentialist thinking In this paper, it isendeavored to investigate the similarity of Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī's way of thinking with western existentialist philosophers. Thus, at first, general properties and principals of Philosophical Theory of existentialism are studied.Then,a summary ofof thinkers' views at this school, includingSorenKierkegard, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Karl Jaspers, Miguel de Unamuno, and Sartre, will be pointed out.Afterwards,some aspects of Rūmī'sthoughts that are consistent with the outstanding points of this theory are investigated, and thenthe common grounds aredepictedbetweenthinking principals of existentialist philosophers and thoseof Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
