Intertextual Relationship of Safvat-al-Safa and Asrar-al-Tawhid (Based on Theory of Gerard Genette)

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

khodabakhsh Asadollahi ¹ , Sorraya Karimi ²

1 - Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili
2 - دانشجوی دکتری گروه زبان و ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی، اردبیل، ایران.

Received: 2021-04-06 Accepted : 2021-06-02 Published : 2023-09-23

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Abstract :

Gerard Genette, one of the prominent scholars, relates the intertextuality of each text with its predecessors and in the theory of over-texture, the relation between any texts has been raised with its prefaced text. During the mystical period the discussion of mystics has been remarkable with similar views and the structure of mystical tokens such as Safvat-al-Safa and the Asrar-al-Tawhid based on certain thoughts and speeches of mysticism. This study aims at enlightening the mystical aspects of the eighth century it is argued that the Qaramate and the ideas of Sheikh Safi according to the viewpoint and Qaramate of Abu Sa'id Abu- al-Khair in terms of the theory of genes. As a result of this research, intertextual orientation of Safvat al-Safa is welcomed in the wake of Abu Sa'id Abu- al-Khair thoughts in Asrar-al-Tawhid. The similarity of the themes of Safvat al-Safa with the wisdom of Qaramati like Tey-al-arz, Farasat, Death issues, people̕ s rescues and the like and the moral and educational concepts such as Self-education, Covering, and other issues of the intertextual relationship between these two works is confirmed.