Investigation and analysis of story elements in Sufi debates of mystical texts of the 5th and 6th centuries of Hijri
Document Type : Original Article
Authors
Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Salman Farsi University of Kazerun, Kazerun, Iran
Abstract
. In this research, the debates in the Persian mystical prose texts of the fifth and sixth centuries are examined so that while clarifying the explicit goals of the debates through quoting evidence, its indirect information is also studied by examining the fictional elements. . In order to extract, study and categorize the indirect information of the text, a descriptive-analytical research as well as statistical analysis will be done in the framework of examining "story elements" and the structural elements of the story such as volume, character, perspective, tone, place, time and aspect. are checked. without staging to 36% staging. The characters are both static 85% and dynamic 15% and nearly 59% of the place is not mentioned and in the rest very diverse places such as Sheikh's house 8.5% Khanqah 6.5%, and the desert, mosque, Mecca, alley and bazaar , cemetery, hospital, etc., have been the place of debates And in 89% of the debates, there is no mention of time, and in the rest of the debates, more than 4% of the time is at night and rarely in the morning, days of the week, month and year are mentioned. In terms of aspect, 64% are one-dimensional, 16% are dream debates, 12% are multi-dimensional, and the rest are imaginary.
- Receive Date: 16 February 2024
- Revise Date: 26 March 2025
- Accept Date: 09 January 2025
- Publish Date: 20 February 2024