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Mahmoud Fotouhi, Fatemeh Razavi, Volume 29, Issue 90 (7-2021)
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Over the centuries, Persian literature has provided a calm platform for the formation and expression of Iranian ideas.The idea of pluralism or (Wus’at-iMashrab) is one of the beliefs, which peaked in the tenth to twelfth centuries A.H. at the same time as the Safavid rule in Iran and the Gurkhani Timurid rule in India and spread views such as free thinking, happiness, and esotericism.This thought grew with the migration of intellectuals to India in twobranches of Iran and India and was used in various and sometimes contradictory meanings, from rebellion and atheism to the end of spiritual perfection and purity.By explaining this view in poetic Tazkirahs, this study deals with the differences and distinctions in these two political regions and shows how the meanings of Wus’at-iMashrabin poetic Tazkirahsin Iran and India are influenced by the political and cultural atmosphere of these two regions.
Masoumeh Taheri, Dr Mahin Panāhi, Dr Ali Muhammadi Āsiābādi, Volume 32, Issue 97 (1-2025)
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The concept of happiness has always been a subject of morality and mysticism. It has been studied in philosophy from two perspectives: Epicurean hedonism and Aristotelian bliss. Epicurus (341-270 BC), a philosopher of the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece, considered lasting pleasure as the ultimate good of man and presented a practical method that leads to happiness and is sustainable. For Rumi (1207-1273 AD), happiness is similarly sustainable and does not decline with external and internal factors. In this article, an attempt has been made to investigate whether there is a connection between Epicurean hedonism and Rumi’s hedonism through library study and data comparison and analysis. We compared several features from Epicurean and Rumi’s perspectives on happiness based on historical genealogy. The results showed that pleasure from Epicurus’s perspective is lasting and expressed in the end as eudaimonia or happiness (bliss). The goal of his philosophy is to achieve lasting happiness. In this way, man tries to achieve ataraxia by creating limits to his temporary and unstable pleasures. On the other hand, Epicurus’s practical philosophy expresses features that have commonalities with some of the views of Muslim mystics, including those of Rumi.
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