School of Protest in Attar's Totem

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Seyedeh Sedigheh Sajadirad ¹ , Ahmad Zakeri ²

1 - دانشجوی دکتری زبان و ادبیات فارسی،واحدکرج،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی،کرج،ایران
2 - دانشیار گروه زبان و ادبیات فارسی،واحدکرج،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی،کرج،ایران.

Received: 2020-01-07 Accepted : 2020-01-07 Published : 2019-11-22

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From the beginning of Persian poetry the essence of protest and social commitment is seen in the works of poets. The protest is a category of literature in which the enlightened mind expresses dissatisfaction with the status quo in order to express the problems of society and intellectual and consciousness. The committed poets respond with indifference by virtue of the mission and responsibility they feel on their own depending on the conditions of the various abnormalities they see especially in the social and political structure.Attar is a protest critic who not only does not hide in his sharp eyes not only the least slip of people, rulers, leaders and imams of society but even sometimes he does not see the system of creation as good order and curses it clicks on it from the tongue of rabble. The protest accounted for a considerable percentage of the tales of Attar's Masnavi and has a long history in Islamic culture and each of the scholars of the Islamic world has expressed their protest in a particular way from a special point of view. One can say that the most prominent dimension of the personality of the guilty people in the writings of Attar is that they are in fact the language of social protest and social criticism of the society of the disputed age of the seventh and eighth century. In this paper, it is tried to identify the social context and factors that influence the formation of the personality of the unreasonable rationales in the era of Attar and its relation to the school of protest and the most important character of the mad wise of Attar age that is "being protesting and social critic" in some of his stories is considered as an example.