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  1 - Didactic Trainings in Noor Ali Shāh Isfahāni's Jāme al-Asrār
  Nasrin Khodabande Mahin Panahi
  Jāme al-Asrār, a mystical-didactic essay written by Mohammad Ali Isfahāni, also called Noor Ali Shāh (died in 1212 AH), the famous mystic of the early thirteenth century AH. Imitating Sa'di's Golestān, Jāme al-Asrar has been written both in verse and prose by him. Noor More

  Jāme al-Asrār, a mystical-didactic essay written by Mohammad Ali Isfahāni, also called Noor Ali Shāh (died in 1212 AH), the famous mystic of the early thirteenth century AH. Imitating Sa'di's Golestān, Jāme al-Asrar has been written both in verse and prose by him. Noor Ali Shāh is one of the leading mystics of the Qajar period, from whom many mystical works of prose and poetry have been left. Studying his works will help understanding the mystical literature of the Qajar period. This paper aims at answering the following questions: What didactic trainings could be found in Jāme al-Asrar and what techniques did he uses to train them? In this study, the didactic lessons of Jāme al-Asrār were investigated by using a descriptive-analytic approach, and some of its salient didactic teachings were classified into three main headings (theoretical mysticism, moral-educational, and Mystical-Sufi). The results show that though like Sa'di, he paid much attention to moral and educational lessons due to the general popularity of Sa'di's Golestān to these matters, like many others who embark to write a similar work to Golestān as one of the masterpieces of Persian literature, however, in Noor Ali Shāh's Jāme al-Asrār, the Mystical-Sufi teachings which was the ultimate reason for writing this treatise, is higher in frequency than the other two classified subjects. The author has also used both the direct and the indirect methods of teaching the concepts and has used tricks such as storytelling, teaching through dialogue between characters, teaching through prayers, training through advice, and training through questions and answers and in writing this work. It is also inferred that the writer has paid attention to all levels of society from ordinary people to the high rank mystics as his audience. Manuscript profile