著者

黒柳 恒男

出版者

一般社団法人 日本オリエント学会

雑誌

オリエント (ISSN:00305219)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.3, pp.95-110,144, 1964

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Sufism played a great role in the classical Persian literature which flourished from the tenth century to the fifteenth century. We may regard a poet to be a Sufi by nature and a Sufi is incomplete without ecstacies of a poet.<br>The first Persian Sufi poet was Abu Said Abi'l Khair who employed ruba'i form as a mode of Sufi expression. Sanai, Attar, Rumi and Jami expressed Sufism chiefly in mathnavi form.<br>Persian Sufism found its highest expression in ghazal, the greatest exponent of which was Hafiz.<br>The conventional symbolic language is characteristic of Sufi poetry. It is said that every object mentioned by Sufi poets is typal of some philosophic or Sufi conception.<br>In this article I divided Sufi symbolic terms into the following five categories chiefly based on the great Sufi poet Iraqi's work.<br>(A) Terms on the parts of human body.<br>(B) Terms on wine<br>(C) Terms on religion.<br>(D) Terms on plants.<br>(E) Terms on nature.<br>(F) Terms on love.