Author

• Bahram Sha’bāni

Assistant Professor , Department of Persian Language and Literature, Jahrom University (bahram.shaabani@gmail.com).

Abstract

With the aim of analyzing the idea of ​​asceticism in Attar's view, this study has examined the lyric poems of this prominent and influential poet in Islamic mysticism and Sufism. In this research, first by studying Attar's sonnets, samples related to asceticism are collected and then categorized and analyzed descriptively-analytically, using a textualistic approach in the form of three types of devotional, mystical and Qalandarian views on asceticism. The results of research show that in the sonnets of this poet, the Qalandarian view of asceticism prevailed and after that, mystical and devotional views had more evidence, respectively. Also, his Qalandarian and mystical view of asceticism was often negative and sometimes positive, and his devout view of asceticism was almost positive. It can be said that the concepts of love, adherence to the essence of religion, firm belief in the resurrection, intercession and signification of the Prophet, condemnation of customary asceticism and its connections, manifestation of the glory of truth, humiliation and anonymity, abandonment of other than God, astonishment, Qalandari and astute call, the experience of meeting oneself and the desire for pubs and ruins, the old man's talk, the influence of the male lover, the inefficiency of science and the sciences of philosophy and theology, and the tendency towards Zoroastrian and Christian elements form the basis of Attar's triple views on asceticism.

Keywords

• Keywords: Attar
• Sonnets
• View on Asceticism