Document Type : علمی- پژوهشی

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Semnan University Semnan, Iran.

2 Ph.D Condition, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Semnan University Semnan,, Iran.

Abstract

The interpretation of "The Lord of Lords" at the beginning of a romance by Nizami Ganjavi (1141 – 1209): “Khosrow and Shirin”, under the title "About Monotheism" is neither verbal nor spiritually compatible with the principles of monotheism in Islamic theology. The central issue of this article is that by explaining and interpreting these verses, it can provide an epistemological and ontological model for an accurate understanding of the depth of the thoughts of this sage. This proposed model is: "Hermetic worldview". This article seeks to interpret the phrase "The Lord of Lords" in Nizami's theology based on the Hermetic epistemological system and to generalize it to the entire theological system of Nizami. For this purpose, first, by exploring the history and content of Hermetic texts, we have provided a general outline of its theological system, and then we have searched for the traces of those teachings in Iranian and then Islamic texts. In the next stage, we have studied the influence of those teachings through the Sabians of Harran, and Suhrawardi's works in the intellectual atmosphere of the contemporary Nizami period, and with intra-textual and extra-textual evidences, we have tried to show influence of Hermetic ideas on him, especially Hermetic dualistic theology, which believes in the existence of a supreme God and a creator God.

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