The Reflection of Mystic Religious Experiences on Hafiz Divan (Considering Sween Bern’s Theory

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Masoumeh Sadeghi ¹ ( استادیار گروه زبان و ادبیات فارسی، واحد گرمسار، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، گرمسار، ایران. [e-mail] )

Received: 2020-06-14 Accepted : 2020-06-14 Published : 2020-05-21

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Religion and mysticism have affected the human life for long. Within the last few centuries, the supplementary and critical out looks of the experts to these issues have been led to establishing specific fields at universities and some researchers have considered them. These theories should be applied more efficiently in order to determine their accuracy and reliability. Based on Sween Bern’s theory, the mystical experiences of the mystics are classified in five groups.            Since Hafiz has been recognized as one of the most prominent Iranian figures in mysticism. In this research, the Sween Bern’s theory has been applied to extract and classify the mystical experiences from Hafiz Divan. The findings of this research indicate that the considered mystical experiences in Hafiz Divan are placed in the frame of Sween Bern’s theory. However, few points need to be explained