Literary texts are the product of individual unconscious psyche and collective consciousness. In Iranian mythology, Fereydoun and Zahhak are symbols of good and evil. This research is an attempt to demonstrate aspects of growth and decay according to Erich Fromm’s theories. It aims at finding aspects of growth (love of life, love of humanity, freedom from the archetypal Mother) and contra...

there is no doubt that mowlana is one of the greatest scholars of the islamic world and the most important concept of his intellectual structure is love. love in his opinion is the pillar of contemplation and cannot be described in words. the more he states about love the more light he sheds on it. the objective manifestation of love for him is shams tabrizi. he was the one who changed mowlana ...

Although the word “love” appears less frequently in the Qur‟an than in the Bible, Love is a cornerstone of both Islam and Christianity. As the Bible and the Qur‟an agree on many things, why then do Muslims and Christians perceive each other so differently and so often misunderstand each other? Such a question, of course, deserves an in-depth, multi-faceted answer; however, we...

One variety of love is familiar in everyday life and qualifies in every reasonable sense as a reactive attitude. ‘Reactive love’ is paradigmatically (a) an affectionate attachment to another person, (b) appropriately felt as a non-self-interested response to particular kinds of morally laudable features of character expressed by the loved one in interaction with the lover, and (c) paradigmatica...

the present study involves a brief introduction of two literary-mystical works in the widespread culture of the world of christianity and islam. that is, a novel belonging to leon tolstoy's last works, and attar's narration of the soul evolution of ibrahim-e-adham, the iranian prince. the evolution of the soul has in self some outcomes among which, love, life, piety, worshiping, and m...