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Aliasghar Mirbagherifard, Hossein Aghahosaini, Mohammad Reza Nasr Isfahani, Maryam Haghi, Volume 20, Issue 72 (5-2012)
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Quranic tales have always been used by Persian poets in order to create beautiful and unique themes and images. One of these tales is the tale of Adam and Eve and their Fall from Heaven due to eating the Forbidden Fruit. Following most Islamic commentaries, wheat has been considered as this fruit in classic Persian poetry, but the reading of contemporary poets of this tale is different. Sometimes, their reading is similar to classic poets but in other times, following the Old Testament, they consider the apple or the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as this fruit, and still in other times they have a mixed reading of Islamic and Jewish traditions. Also, some contemporary poets have proposed a symbolic reading of this tale. This article, initially provides a history of the tale of Forbidden Tree in the Quran, Old Testament and their commentaries. Then, this issue is investigated in the poems of twenty outstanding contemporary poets (from Nima to the present time) and their poems are compared with Quranic and Biblical narratives. The results show that those contemporary poets which have traditional views, have paid attention to Islamic narratives whereas modern poets have often used Biblical narratives
Maryam Seyedan, Volume 29, Issue 91 (12-2021)
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According to the Bible and the Holy Quran, Adam who was the first man created by God lived in Paradise but later fell to the earth for some reasons. The story of expulsion of Adam from Paradise has been widely mentioned in Old Persian literature and has been interpreted in different ways. This article aims to investigate the reasons for the Fall of Adam from Paradise in some interpretive, mystical texts and in the divans of famous Persian poets up to the eighth century A.H. The researcher classified, compared, and analyzed these reasons based on their similarities and differences. The findings showed that in Old Persian literature including interpretive, mystical, and poetry works the Fall of Adam was either the result of his sin and God’s wrath upon him, or it was his destiny as decided by God, therefore he had no other choice, or he consciously decided to leave the paradise. In each case, there are some reasons behind Adam’s expulsion from Paradise to the earth.
Ebrahim Mohammadi, Effat Ghafouri Hassanabad, Seyyed Mahdi Rahimi, Hamed Norouzi, Volume 30, Issue 93 (1-2023)
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Ahou Khanom (Madam Ahou’s Husband) novel, written by Ali Mohammad Afghani and its movie adaptation directed by Davood Mollapour. The noteworthy point in both works is the existence of different sense-maker layers and components in the novel and movie threshold that reveals the quality of the relationship between husband and wife in the traditional and pseudo-modern discourse. By highlighting the dispute between traditional and modern discourse, the writer and the director, invisibly and intangibly, try to present the audience the image of an oppressed and alienated woman around whom the patriarchal discourse has always formed a chain to subjugate her due to the natural differences between men and women, and has regarded her as the other and inferior and has marginalised her. So, in the present research based on a comparative-interdisciplinary approach and Laclau and Mouffe’s critical discourse analysis the structures of the thresholds of the two media were investigated. First, the micro-texts of thresholds in the novel and movie were identified, and then with the analysis of the existing point in their structure, the connection among thresholds, the nodal text and its outside world, and ways of creating meaning in different layers of micro-text were examined. Two points were revealed by studying threshold structures in Showhar-e Ahou Khanom’s novel and movie: 1. All the points found in the thresholds of both works were formed based on a macro-clash between men and women. 2. The existing points reveal patriarchally created discourse which always equates men with the nodal point, as superior, active, independent, and free, while introducing women with concepts such as marginal, inferior, passive, dependent and limited, and using the rational of the difference between men and women it excludes and rejects this rival.
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