Mohaddith Dehlavi and his method of commentary in Miftah al-Fotuh

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Persian language and literature, faculty of literature, university of Isfahan, Isfahan.Iran.

2 Persian literature group، Faculty of Literature and Humanities، University of Isfahan، Isfahan، Iran.

10.29252/kavosh.2021.16429.3050

Abstract

Persian literature and Islamic mysticism have been very popular in India for many years and many precious works in Persian have been left by them. Among these works is the book Miftah al-Fotuh written by Sheikh Abdul Haq Mohaddith Dehlavi (1058-1052), a scholar of hadith, researcher, historian and Indian Sufi. In Sufism, he was a follower of Sheikh Mohieddin Abdolqader Gilani (471-561), an Iranian mystic, narrator and poet of the fifth and sixth lunar centuries, and the founder of the Qaderiyya Sufism dynasty. The main issue of this research is to introduce the description and commentary, classify the criteria of description writing and analyze his views in the description. To explain this issue, the author seeks to answer the following questions by using the method of content analysis and citing the achievements of the genre approach to the text: Who is Mohaddith Dehlavi, what are the characteristics of his mystical description and what are the author's views? What role has this description played in the revival of Sufism on the subcontinent? The results of the research show that Miftah al-Fotuh is a translation and intertextual description of prose and extended into Persian, which was written in the 11th lunar century by the order of Shah Abu al-Ma'ali, the ruler of that region and one of the lovers of Qaderieh way. In writing this work, in addition to translating the words and meanings of the book Fotuh al-Ghayb,

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Journal of Kavoshnameh in Persian Language and Literature
Volume 22, Issue 51
March 2022
Pages 39-69

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