Butterfly position and its literary benefits emphasizing the Safavid era

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

AZAM KARAMI ¹ , Abdolhosein Farzad ² , Mohsen Abolghasemi ³

1 - Department of Farsi Language and Literature،Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences،University of Science and Research،Tehran ،Iran.
2 - Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Research Center for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-09-05 Accepted : 2019-02-25 Published : 2018-09-23

Keywords: Butterfly, Position, Sufism, Safavid, history,

Abstract :

Butterfly is one of the oldest and the most bizarre of Iranian office,which combining its features with the elements of the butterfly, as a symbol of love and affection, causes difficulties in the literary field and Contrary to what seems supposedly, the Safavids have boosted this office than any other government. because the foundation of the Safavid government is based on pure surrender and devotion and a relationship between the ruler and the citizen who relied on religious and Sufi thoughts. The authors intend to study the role of Safavid in improving the position of the butterfly through the historical and literary studies of this position and its alignment with the literary texts of each period. Evidence of this research is based on the study of important historical and literary texts of each period and is extracted by analytical-descriptive method and historical order, and the study result is explained by drawing separate graphs. Studies indicate that although the Mongol attack and the influence of foreign words have led to lexical changes in this position, the concept and nature of the butterfly position have the same name and characteristics and the first function has been the same all along the history and in the deep religious relationship between king and Sufis with the abundance of butterfly elements in the literary works of the Safavid era, there has been a significant relationship that has promoted the status of this position and strengthened the symbol of the butterfly in poetry and literary works.