Abolfazl Mohebbi; Amir Abbas Azizifar; Sajjad Gholami Anjiraki
Abstract
Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez Shirazi (727–792 AH) is a poet of such remarkable expressive depth that the exploration of both the explicit and subtle dimensions of his thought, ...
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Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez Shirazi (727–792 AH) is a poet of such remarkable expressive depth that the exploration of both the explicit and subtle dimensions of his thought, as well as the intricate nuances embedded in his verses, has continually invited sustained reflection and scholarly debate. Mircea Eliade (1907-1986 AD), the Romanian scholar, is also a famous and prolific contemporary thinker in the field of religions and mythology. One of his works, The Myth of the Eternal Return, is his most authoritative work on time and history. “Time” is one of the profound and influential concepts that existed in the mind and language of this researcher. We know that time has superiority and dominance over everything and ultimately everything is defeated by time. It is only speech that can eliminate this dominance of time. Hafez's poetry is still alive and dynamic after all this time, and it has the capacity to be read in all ages. Eliade, in his aforementioned book has also considered time as an overwhelming and crushing phenomenon that contains the regeneration of concepts. In this research, we aim to examine Hafez's verse based on Mircea Eliade's theory of the myth of eternal return. The authors' attempt in the present research is to provide readers with a new reading of this verse by Hafez through an independent research and the application of the aforementioned theory.
