خلاصة:
Nostalgia which is described as homesickness, regret and affection for the past is one of the common motifs in mystical literature. Considering its context and content, mystical literature is inherently able to analyze nostalgia, and since looking regretfully to the past is intensified in some periods of Islamic Sufism and mysticism and manifestation of this attitude has been influential in the mystical texts, investigation of this concept could be considered as a novel step towards further understanding of the thoughts of the authors of the works. Therefore, in this study attempts are made to show to what extent and how Shahabeddin Sohrevardi’s Persian treatises benefit from nostalgic sentiments.
Nostalgia of time and place, homesickness and eagerness toward Utopia are deemed as specific nostalgia out of nostalgic components within Sohrevardi’s treatisesMeanwhile, regretting and missing the original birthplace and homeland are the most frequent examples.
ملخص الجهاز:
From a collective perspective, what comes to the tongue of the poet or writer are the sorrows and pains that have distressed the people of a region and made them share an unpleasant reality, such that the remembrance of the good times of the past through the words of the poet or 2 writer, revives a universal regret in minds"8 Suhrawardi's treatises include short and profound tales that depict the story of the spiritual journey and travel of man through the levels of existence, from the western estrangement of the earthly world to the arrival at the eastern destination of Illumination beyond the spheres, in a symbolic and unique language that is unparalleled both in terms of writing style and language, and in terms of the use of mystical symbols to convey the main elements of Illuminationist wisdom.
His original place, from which he set out and longs to return to once more, is Yemen, which is the symbol of the Orient of lights, where the soul, before separating from it and falling into the material world, had a residence like a celestial and angelic essence.
In one of the stages of the spiritual path, the traveler of his story - who can be a symbol of the human soul - reaches the "Pure Realm" under the guidance of the Elder guide (the Active Intellect), where all the lights of the universe are manifested.
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