Narrative-discursive Validity of Aflaki's Constructed Reality in Manaqib al-Arifin

The tradition of mystical biography by writing both forms of collective and personal writing biography is a continuation of Islamic historiography that uses the tradition of documenting and objectification of the science of hadith to validate itself and it creates facts about mystics or a mystic. From an epistemological point of view, the construction of the mentioned reality is the result of selecting the author-narrator or narrators who represent it according to special epistemology or ideological attachments, this point is especially noticeable in personal biographies due to the density of events and many details. One of these biographies is Manaqib al-Arifin al-Aflaki, which has been written about Rumi and his entourage. In this article, the narrative-discourse validity of Aflaki constructed reality in representing the events of Rumi's life has been identified and interpreted in a descriptive-analytical manner. The theoretical basis of the research is the opinions of some experts in social semiotics and critical discourse analysis, whose meanings have been explained in both quantitative and qualitative levels.  The result shows that the author-narrator documents some of his constructed facts from a quantitative point of view by using four categories of number modality, emphatic, narrative frequency and continuity with high causality. At another level from a qualitative point of view, some other events are first objectively and perceptibly based on the narrator-focal cognitive tools, such as the sense of sight, hearing and touch, which indicate the perceptive "here" and "now"...