Emergence of Spirituality and Mysticism in Shurideh Shirazi's Poetry

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Shirin Baghai ¹

1 - Department of Persian Language and Literature, Farhangian University PO Box 889-14665, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2023-12-22 Accepted : 2023-12-22 Published : 2023-12-22

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Abstract :

Fasih al-Mulk, Shourideh Shirazi (died 1345 AH) has been called the last poet of the literary return style, who is considered one of the bright-hearted geniuses in Persian literature, the turbulent period of his life at the end of the Qajar era and the beginning of the Pahlavi era and the events of the constitutional revolution, his poetry has a high And it makes descents that show tendencies towards spirituality and mysticism. In this article, with the analytical method and referring to the first-hand sources and poet's poems, hymns that were related to spirituality and mysticism have been analyzed, and divine love and desire for the unity of existence have been analyzed. And self-cultivation is followed in it until becoming a Perfect Human, and his Sufi poems about Imam Ali (a.s.) are especially impressive, which are completed with devotion to Imam Hussain (a.s.) and Imam Reza (a.s.) and make these imams as Perfect human. draws and it is This poet had spiritual and mystical tendencies and this tendency increased during his maturity and the last decades of his life. He puts spiritual principles at the head of his teachings in most of his poems.