Iranian Studies

A Comparative Study of the Concept and Quality of Love in Tamhīdāt of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt in Comparison with the Ghazals of Ḥāfeẓ Shirazi

abdolreza seif; Behzad Geranmaye

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 24 June 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2025.393666.1343

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This study undertakes a comparative examination of the concept and quality of love in two prominent works of Persian mystical literature: Tamhīdāt by ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī ... Read More

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A Comparative Analysis of Moral Virtues and Vices in Ferdowsi’s Rostam and Sohrab and Matthew Arnold’s Sohrab and Rostum

mohammad mirnezami; homeira zomorrodi; Abdolreza seif

Volume 15, Issue 3 , November 2025, , Pages 1-24

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2025.399999.1363

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Epic literature has long provided a platform for representing moral and cultural thought. The story of Rostam and Sohrab in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and its re-creation in Matthew ... Read More

From Zopyrus to the Christian Torturing King; The Motif of Deception in Four Historical and Literary Narratives

Mahmoud Fazilat; Abdolreza Seif; Arad Gholami

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2024, , Pages 43-58

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.361312.1205

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The roots of many literary stories can be found in historical narratives. In this research, we focus on four historical and literary narratives that have a special type of deception ... Read More

Considerations in the text and margins of Attar's tazkira al-Awliya

Hamidreza Fahandezhsaadi; Abdolreza seif

Volume 14, Issue 1 , June 2024, , Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.354717.1183

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Tazkira al-Awliyâ is one of the first books in Persian language, which mentions the sayings and biographies of ascetics and Sufis in a unified way, and it is also among the first ... Read More

Synesthesia types in Hafez's sonnets

Abdul Reza Seif; Milad Movahedi rad; Aliasghar Eskandari

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2023, , Pages 75-92

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2022.351078.1169

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Synesthesia (sensualism) is a kind of deviation from the norm of meaning, which by breaking the normal system of words and creating a concept contrary to the habit, creates literary ... Read More

The representation of the concept of distance in Hafez's poetry based on the theory of mental space of Fauconnier and Turner (1994)

Mostafa Eslami Sanjbad; Abdolreza Seyf

Volume 12, Issue 1 , April 2022, , Pages 1-23

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2022.343697.1119

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The aim of this article is to scrutiny the concept of distance in Hafez Poetry based on the theory of mental spaces of Fauconie and Turner. This theory, which was proposed in the field ... Read More The aim of this article is to scrutiny the concept of distance in Hafez Poetry based on the theory of mental spaces of Fauconie and Turner. This theory, which was proposed in the field of cognitive semantics, due to special attention to semantic processes and its complexities from a cognitive point of view, can provide a suitable framework for analysis in the study of Hafez's sonnets, whom has always been the leader of Persian-language poets in terms of the complexity of their themes. Studies showed that the concept of distance in Hafez's poetry appears in the form of spatial distance, temporal distance and cognitive distance. cognitive distance is seen more than other types of distance in Hafez's poetry. In this way, the poet uses temporal and spatial elements and generally concrete and objective elements to convey an abstract concept, i.e. distance in knowledge, wisdom, understanding and perspective to the audience. Sometimes, by denying the apparent similarity between two things or people, the poet emphasizes the inner differences and actually the existence of a distance between them. This work of Hafez can be seen as breaking existing frameworks and creating new frameworks, which is related to Hafez's art of deconstruction. Sometimes, by considering two mutual phenomena, the poet emphasizes the negation of the apparent difference and their oneness in practice and the absence of distance between them. This group of verses can be well analyzed based on the approach of mental spaces in the form of conceptual fusion, because the poet uses two mutual mental spaces,and by creating a combined space of the two, creates a new space that contains elements of the input spaces and also new elements that did not exist in the input spaces and are the result of the combination of two mutual spaces. The space builders in Hafez's poems that convey the concept of distance fall into two general categories: the first category is linguistic units whose main function and role is space creation (elements of time and space, contrast, negation, etc.) The second is not limited to specific linguistic units, but rather literary techniques that the poet uses as a space creator (multiple meanings and opposition).

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A Comparative Study of the Concept and Quality of Love in Tamhīdāt of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt in Comparison with the Ghazals of Ḥāfeẓ Shirazi

Abstract

A Comparative Analysis of Moral Virtues and Vices in Ferdowsi’s Rostam and Sohrab and Matthew Arnold’s Sohrab and Rostum

Abstract

From Zopyrus to the Christian Torturing King; The Motif of Deception in Four Historical and Literary Narratives

Abstract

Considerations in the text and margins of Attar's tazkira al-Awliya

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Synesthesia types in Hafez's sonnets

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The representation of the concept of distance in Hafez's poetry based on the theory of mental space of Fauconnier and Turner (1994)

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