The Appearance of Perfect Human in the Works of Jamali Dehlavī

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Chabahar Maritime and Marine University

Abstract

Jamali, Hamed B. Fazl-Allah is a poet, writer and biographer lived in the late 9th and early10th centuries. Although he was a follower of Sufi order,he was among the elect of emirs and sultans.He put his straight and firm trust in his spiritual teacher called Shaikh Samāʾ-al-Din Kanbuh.He always tried to represent what he has received and learned from his spiritual guide or the other mystics via material and non-material movements in his poems and the other works.Then, mystical or spiritual model is much more prevalent in his works.What is more projected in the works of this Indian Persian-speaker man of letters is the set of descriptions, states, positions and beliefs of the nobles and eminent people; so, based on the understandings of the writer, his beliefs in the perfect human and the characteristics of enlightened spiritual guide can be seen and understood easily.This piece of research work tried to study the appearance of perfect human in the works of Jamali and to enumerate the features and characteristics of the ideal or perfect human.The findings indicated that although Jamali did not deal with the aforementioned characteristics directly,they can be comprehended and perceived from the tenor of his words.These kinds of characteristics are presented in the forms of advices and counsels,empirical stories and narrations,as well as descriptions of general though. 
 

 

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