A comparative study of the concept of "death" and its manifestations in Islamic mysticism and the existentialism (Based on the mosibat- nameh of Attar and the novel of Nausea Sartre)

Subject Areas : comparative literature

فرشاد ولی زاده ¹ , علی دهقان ^{2 *} , حمیدرضا فرضی ³

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Accepted : 2019-12-25 Published : 2019-11-22

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Islamic mysticism as the religious representation of the inner knowledge of the material life, the phenomenon of death, and ultimately its worldly life. Existentialism and the school of existence, or the existentialism, also emphasize the realization of existing human possibilities in this world with these two characteristics, which presuppose existence on the primordial nature of the world, and that the subject of thought is considered by human beings, and not mere philosophical subjects. Death is also criticized as an existential possibility.This study examines the concept of death and its manifestations in the two worldviews based on the “Mosibat nameh” and the novel “Nausea”, and has come up with findings that, despite the fundamental differences, Both schools of thought have conceived the material world as a limited passage and lacking an existential value that death, like the beginning of eternal life or existential potential, can help human beings to create a supreme concept for the life of this universal world. From Attar's point of view, death is the beginning of an eternal connection and the joining of the path of Allah to Allah, and from Sartre's point of view, death is a possible existential condition that can be used to enhance the meaning of it by exacerbating the sense of life.