جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « یارسان » در نشریات گروه « ادبیات و زبان ها »

The current paper aims at investigating the strategies of spatial production and representation in the Yārsān religion by focusing on a sacred scripture entitled bārga bārga. To this purpose, firstly the strategies employed for locating a referent in the text are explained according to space grammar as proposed by Levinson (2004). Then, we try to study the strategies of spatial production and representation in the text by applying the geocriticism approach (Westphal 2011). The results show that the text mainly employs three strategies of topology, deixis and motion to specify the location of a referent. In addition, the results demonstrate that the spatial ideas in the text are mainly based on two macro-metaphorical models (Caravan and dyeing). These models make a unified spatial-temporal complex in such a way that any spatial idea associates a temporal epoch (the principle of spatiotemporality). Additionally, the study indicates that the text, by using some strategies, challenges the established and formal spatial boundaries and reconstructs them in a new order to support its ideological intentions. Furthermore, this sacred scripture tries to deconstruct the strict boundary between the real and the fictive (referentiality principle) and also it employs divergent and numerous placenames in an innovative way in order to express its ideological and theological messages. Finally, it should be noted that these strategies are employed to present a new spiritual spatial ideology in the text.

Abstract From the traditionalist perspective, sacred art is manifested in spiritual and intuitive wisdom. Sacred art, in any form, intends to reveal the inherent truth of objects, phenomena, and events. The Yarsan religion also believes that the manifestation of God's essence in humankind is like an open window to God or a mirror that does not reflect anything but him. The present study seeks to analyze the sacred arts of architecture and poetry in the Yarsan religion regarding Prof. Seyed Hossein Nasr and Traditionalists' ideas adopting a descriptive-analytical method. Study results indicated that although Prof. Nasr has not directly addressed the sacred arts of Yarsan religion in his works, considering his conceptions and definitions of the sacred art, especially in the field of poetry and architecture, his ideas are in harmony with the beliefs and practices of Yarsan. Prof. Nasr assumes traditional art as an art that tries to display the origin of being, based on religious principles and divine tradition; and, therefore the most transcendental art in the traditional society, i.e. "becoming sacred" means polishing the soul, so that it can reincarnate in the form of artistic work, to be merit the Divinity. The same view is evident in the beliefs of Yarsan, and everything goes back to God in it.

The present study is an attempt to put forward two hypotheses about the Yarsan religion; the first hypothesis seeks to focus on the behavioral aspects of this religion. Analyzing the Yarsani texts, this study explores some of the behavioral and subjective dimensions of Yarsanism which distinguish it from the other religions in the Middle East. The second hypothesis seeks to represent the ethical aspects of this religion. Unlike the behavioral aspects of Yarsan, a large number of the Yari texts focus on the ethical aspect of this religion. If we define behavior as an approach referring to “contact [with] self” or “contact [to] self” and ethics as the codes and principles, then we find out that behavior, in the Yarsanic texts, does not have a higher position than ethics, if not a lower position. This study, in the first place, attempts to demonstrate these hypotheses in some sacred texts of Yarsan. Yarsan is a religion that puts emphasis on behavior as well as on ethics and being ethical. The Yarsanic texts confront us with a dualism; its behavioral aspects distinguish it from the monotheistic religions while at the same time they display great similarity between this religion and other Monotheistic religions.