Symbol of Sun Suhrawardi's Allegorical Works
Subject Areas : Mytho
1 - استادیار دانشکدة ادبیات و علوم انسانی دانشگاه آزاداسلامی ـ واحد شهر کرد
Keywords: sun, Light, allegory, Shahāb al-Din Suhrawardi, Loqat-e Murān,
Abstract :
From the earliest period of Persian poetry, the sun has been a subject of attention, and in the 6th and 7th AH, Khāghānī Shirvāni, Attār Nishāburi and Mowlānā Jalāl-al Din Balkhi employed the image of the sun in their poems. But for Shahāb al-Din Suhrawardi (1155-1191), the Persian philosopher and mystic, the light and the sun have a special significance; according to him all creation is a successive outflow of the original supreme Light of Lights (Nur al-Anvar). This article tries to analyze the symbol of sun in the Allegorical Works of Suhrawardi, especially Loqat-e Murān.
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