Iranian Studies

Research Paper

A Reassessment and Critique of the East-West Discourse in the Thought of Iranian Contemporary Scholars of Religion, with Emphasis on Second Pahlavi Era

Fatima Tofighi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2023, Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.336408.1071

Abstract

Despite their differences, right and left thinkers in the decades preceding the Iranian revolution had a relatively similar understanding of the place of Iran and Islam in the world. ... Read More Despite their differences, right and left thinkers in the decades preceding the Iranian revolution had a relatively similar understanding of the place of Iran and Islam in the world. This understanding was about both the difference between perception in the East and West and dealt with the particularity of the Iranian Muslim, and considered the Iranian-Islamic experience extending to different parts of the world. This picture of Iran and Islam in the works of conservative and revolutionary thinkers, such as A. Zarrinkoub, A. Fardid, M. Motahhari, Al. Shariati, D. Schayegan, and H. Nasr is studied in the present essay. The central signifier in these narratives about Islam and Iran in response to the question of "we" and "others" is the East-West binary. In other words, Iranian Muslims had to know what their relationship with others (Arab Muslims an Non-Muslim Europeans) is. According to the prevailing narrative of the separation of Iranians from an originally Aryan (or European) identity, Iranians were separated from their identity once at the time of the Arab conquest, and another time in the retardation from the progressive world. Many of these authors tried to solve this problem by several strategies: To resolve the question of the relation between Islam and Iran, they tried to answer this question by constructing a narrative of progress in Islamic tradition. They also emphasized that the conditions of understanding in the East and West are entirely different, and thus showed themselves up as the leaders of progressive method of esoteric and non-argumentative understanding that has been troubled throughout history and has caused the retardation of Muslim and Iranians from their cultural legacy. In this essay, after describing the intellectual atmosphere of Iran in the Pahlavi period, I highlight the common intellectual elements in the work of the above authors. In the end, by reference to a critical perspective and by recourse to postcolonial theory, I will show how this discourse is a non-native construct, based on European hegemonic assumptions.

Research Paper

Investigating the political and commercial relations of Aghlabids based on the coins discovered from Karaj Abu Dolaf and Tel Yavne

Esmail Sharahi; Maryam mohammadi; Majid Montaze Zohouri

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2023, Pages 21-39

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.335418.1067

Abstract

Aghlabids(184-296 AH) was the first semi-independent government during the Abbasid caliphate in the Islamic Maghreb that with conquering parts of North Africa and southern Italy, especially ... Read More

Research Paper

Correction of verses from Masnavi of Selselstozzahab of Jami

Hosein Ali Rahimi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2023, Pages 41-55

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2022.339249.1089

Abstract

Jami is a famous poet and mystic of the ninth century AH. His most important works are Haft Aurang, which includes the seven Mathnavi: Selselatozzahab, Salaman and Absal, Tohfatol-Ahrar, ... Read More

Research Paper

Dervish Study of the Qajar Era from the Perspective of Travelogues of European Travelers

Amir Pourrastegar

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2023, Pages 57-74

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2022.347403.1146

Abstract

European's travelogues are important in understanding "another view", in anthropology and cultural-social history studies area. Sufism and Dervishes are one of the prominent topics ... Read More

Research Paper

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

Abstract

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

Research Paper

Revelry or love? (Study of the most important characteristics of love in Farrokhi Sistani's Tashbib poems)

hossein hassanrezaei

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2023, Pages 93-111

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2022.338533.1086

Abstract

"love" is one of the most frequent words, in Iran and world literature. Because most people, experience love, One of the most common themes in art and literature is love. Persian literature, ... Read More "love" is one of the most frequent words, in Iran and world literature. Because most people, experience love, One of the most common themes in art and literature is love. Persian literature, from the beginning until today, has expressed the love in forms such as Couplet-poem, Ghazel, story. Persian literature before the form of "lyric" has used "Tashbib" of ode’s to express the emotion of love. Although the poets of odes have written about various topics such as description of nature, youth, wind, etc., but "love" is one of the most important themes of odes, especially in Farrokhi Sistani's odes. Among Khorasani style poets, Farrokhi Sistani has more romantic Tashbib poems And more than other poets of this era, is known as tashbib poetry. Considering these factors, the present article try to examines different aspects of love in Farokhi's tashbib poems. First, The relationship between love and literatur, Farrokhi's position in Persian lyrical poetry, the effect of relationship with the court on praised’s preference for the beloved expressed. Then, the "Turkic race" of the beloved and his dual duty, military and charming, is examined. Pederasty and pedophilia and its causes are the subject of the next study. In the following, the reduction of love to mere sexual desire and sometimes even its tendency towards sexual deviations such as sexual addiction in Farrokhi's tashbib poems has been studied. The article ends with mentioning other important features of love in this period, such as realism, rationalistic view to love, simplicity of language and thought. The present article, which is written by descriptive-analytical method, In the end, concludes that Farrokhi, in his tashbib poems, expresses physically, happily, pederasty and hedonistically love, under the influence of personal and political-socio factors, such as hedonistic nature, luxury and prosperity, the abundance of Turkish beauties and the "tradition" of pedophilia in that period.

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A Reassessment and Critique of the East-West Discourse in the Thought of Iranian Contemporary Scholars of Religion, with Emphasis on Second Pahlavi Era

Abstract

Investigating the political and commercial relations of Aghlabids based on the coins discovered from Karaj Abu Dolaf and Tel Yavne

Abstract

Correction of verses from Masnavi of Selselstozzahab of Jami

Abstract

Dervish Study of the Qajar Era from the Perspective of Travelogues of European Travelers

Abstract

Synesthesia types in Hafez's sonnets

Abstract

Revelry or love? (Study of the most important characteristics of love in Farrokhi Sistani's Tashbib poems)

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