Abstract:
This study has aimed to examine the religious characteristics represented in Persian war novels from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysi. To do so, the religious identity of warriors in their conduct with prisoners of war, discursive presuppositions about such issues as sacrifice and martyrdom, and the attitude of warriors towards such issues as represented in Persian prominent war novels have been analyzed. The results of the study revealed that the interdiscursivity of Persian war novels is composed of religious teachings and defense strategies. Furthermore, it was found that the Islamic Revolution discourse has articulated a religious semantic system based on Islamic ideological signifiers such as Jihad, sacrifice, martyrdom etc., and that it has consolidated the meaning of discursive signifiers by modeling the ‘eventof Ashoura’ , reference to the Quran, and utilising positive comments about martyrdom and consecration of that, thus facilitating the hegemonization of this discourse.
Machine summary:
To this end, the religious identity of combatants in their behavior towards prisoners, their discursive presuppositions, and their attitudes towards concepts such as self-sacrifice and martyrdom, have been enumerated and examined based on the views reflected in prominent war novels.
, has elaborated a religious semantic system and, supported by the modeling of the Ashura event, citation of the Quran, the use of positive expressions regarding martyrdom and its celebration, has stabilized the meaning of signs and discursive signifiers and helped the discourse achieve hegemony.
Mehdi Saeedi (1395) has also, in the book "War Fiction Literature," addressed the religious dimension of value-oriented novels and their intellectual backgrounds under two titles: "The Link between Value-Oriented Stories with the Early Islamic Era and the Ashura of Imam Hussain (AS)" and "Special Martyrdom-Seeking and Death-Awareness.
To this end, religious signs that the discourse of the Islamic Revolution has introduced into the strategic matters of defense have been extracted, and the "duty-oriented" approach to presence on the fronts and the jurisprudential view of defending the homeland has been shown with reference to the sayings of Imam Khomeini (RA).
In the Holy Defense novel, various methods have been used to institutionalize the values and religious propositions of the discourse of the Islamic Revolution, such as modeling the event of Ashura and aligning it with the fronts of the Iran-Iraq War, citing Quranic verses - as the most important source of Islamic Sharia - and using positive terminology regarding martyrdom and congratulating it as a normative value.
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