Document Type : Original Article
Abstract
Critical discourse analysis is one of the modern methods of text analysis in which the relations and relationships of power and ideology are considered in the three layers of description, coherence, and explanation. This type of discourse analysis helps to understand and perceive literary materials more accurately and scientifically. Many of the hidden messages and concepts of literary texts can be understood through critical discourse analysis. The treatise "Reason and Love" or "The Discourses of the Five" by Sa'in al-Din Ali, a Turk from Isfahan, a philosopher and mystic of the eighth and ninth centuries, is one of the philosophical and mystical stories thatThe author has used the format of allegory, debate, and conversational technique to show the course of human existential and spiritual developments on the path of knowledge and reaching the truth. Accordingly, the present study, using a descriptive-analytical method, aims to examine the treatise on Reason and Love based on Fairclough's critical discourse analysis approach.The course of the debate is such that first, in the coded language of reason, the embodiment of divine order, wisdom, and legitimacy is introduced, and then, the taste-centered, intellect-free mysticism is criticized. But finally, the messengers of love, whose knowledge is based on inner experience and direct intuition,They take over the kingdom of reason, the "Sheikh of Reason" lays down the weapons of rational and narrative proofs and logical reasoning and becomes a slave to the Sultan of Love, and thus reconciliation, harmony, and integration are created between philosophy, Sufism, and enlightenment.
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