Investigation and Analysis of Referential and Cultural Codes in the Moral Teachings of Lily and Majnoon Nezami; Based on the Theory of Cryptography by Roland Barthes

Lily and Majnoon Nezami is one of the prominent texts in the field of Persian literature which, in addition to romantic and personal topics, also deals with moral and educational concepts. The poet sometimes complicates and elaborates his words with conscious traditions, and incorporates codes in the lower layers of the poem that guide the detailed audience towards meaning. In modern times, the science of semiotics is used as a method to analyze new dimensions of a work and one of its important variables is called cryptography. Roland Barthes has done research on this subject and has divided the codes into five types of action, hermeneutic, symbolic, semantic and cultural, and has described a function for each. In the present article, citing library sources and qualitative interpretive methods, ethical issues in Lily and Majnoon have been explored based on referential and cultural codes in order to explore the goals of military humanization in retelling these advices.

The general results of the research show that at the cultural code level, religious and mystical ideology and intertextuality to explain the teachings have a comprehensive and tangible appearance. The author has provided his intended topics to the audience by citing two main and important sources, Islamic and Sufi. The most important moral teachings of this work are: ordering love and retelling the characteristics of true love; Praising the Almighty and appealing to him; Advice on happiness and spoiling the moments; Purposefulness of creation; The importance of loyalty and the need to keep the covenant; patience