Rifts and Escapes in Mathnawi Ma'navi (Based on book 4, 5 and 6)

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Ehsan Ansari ¹ (PhD Student, Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Roodehen Branch, Roodehen, Iran)
Mahdi Mahoozi ² (Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran)
Seyedeh Mandana Hashemi Isfahan ³ (Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Roodehen Branch, Roodehen, Iran)

Received: 2021-12-18 Accepted : 2021-12-18 Published : 2021-12-22

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Abstract :

The discovery of the hidden angles of the Masnavi text is not only impressive for the researchers of mysticism and decorative literature, but also a special fascination for fiction.In these years, efforts have been made based on Narrative Science of Masnavi stories, but in the field of structural recognition of Masnavi is less spoken Therefore, another look at the discourse structure of Masnavi can be considered as the basis for a variety of researches.The present article seeks to illustrate the Rifts and Escapes of the Masnavi text by relying on the stories of the second three books of Masnavi, and to explain the structure of Masnavi from another perspective. This study is for the first time based on the discourse of Rumi's Masnavi, which has never been investigated independently, of Masnavi rifts and escapes, and the structure of Masnavi has not been explored from this perspective. Three Rifts can be traced in Masnavi stories: narrative discontinuity, spoken discontinuity, and hybrid discord. According to the relation between the main stories and the inner stories, we find that many stories have a semantic link. Therefore, Rifts and Escapes are the basis for the creation of the Masnavi discourse / text, and play a fundamental role in development discourse and realizing Rumi's mystical aims. It must be understood that Rumi, with internal or external motivations, follow up and structure these rifts.