Critical analysis of narrative of Hallaj's life and death in the discourse of revolutionary / left

• Published in: Adabiyāt-i ʻirfānī (Tehran, Iran : 2009) Vol. 7; no. 12; pp. 7 - 43
• Main Authors: Arezoo Ebrahimi Dinani, Mohammad Kazem Yusofpur, Alireza Nikouei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Persian
• Published: Alzahra University 01.03.2015
• Subjects: articulation; discursive turn; hallaj; left ideology; mirfetrus
• ISSN: 2008-9384; 2538-1997
• DOI: 10.22051/jml.2016.2325

The narrative of Hallaj’s life and death always has had the capacity and potential to introduce the themes and signs of mystical discourse. Some of these discourses absorb symptoms as "floating signifiers" gradually and articulate them with a different nature and provide some changes for mystical discourse. Under the Constitution, unlike the past that the mystical discourse and narrative texts related to Hallaj were dominant and reading Hallaj was a reflection of his spiritual authority, leftist movements highlighted elements of the Hallaj’s mystical discourse with reductionism and stereotyping and representing two different types of mysticism and separation the passive and inefficient mysticism of revolutionary one, and articulated them with central slab left discourse. The most obvious example of this discursive turn is seen in two distinct readings by Massignon and Mirfetrus that one of them based his narrative on the context of spiritual discourse and documented historical fact and another on the form of left-wing ideological discourse,as Mirfetrus can be the culmination of change mystical discourse into revolutionary one. This article is an overview of the two types of indented deal with mysticism,change and absorb of some elements of mystical discourse in the revolutionary discourse. The result of this change and absorb is replacing divine love- as the base of Hallaj’s live and death- with materialism and humanism on one hand and replacing spiritual and mystical sermons with witchcraft and promoting atheism on the other hand toward the popular revolution.