Authorial Presence in the Mythography of Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī

Document Type : Research Article

Author

• Mojde Mokhlesi

PhD Graduate, Comparative and Analytical History of Islamic Art, Faculty of Theoretical Sciences and Advanced Art Studies, University of Art, Tehran, Iran

10.22067/jhistory.2024.88216.1308

Abstract

Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī, the great poet of the Isfahan school of poetry, gives special consideration to myths and employs numerous legendary figures to express his concepts and notions. Aside from the conventional manner of mythography, he adopts a different and unusual approach to mythical allusion and regards myths and legends from an unconventional point of view. This different attitude can be chiefly related to the different perception and understanding he has of his own status and of the surrounding reality. The present article, using grounded theory as its research methodology, examines the manners in which this different perception is exhibited through the poet’s mythography and discusses the self-referentiality and self-reflexivity lain in that. The research has found Sāʾib’s mythical allusions to be manifestations of his realistic, humanistic, personal perspective and the results portray him as a self-conscious and reflective poet who does not approve of pure mythology and tries to intriduce alterations to it.

Keywords

• mythography
• allusion
• self-reference
• Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī
• Isfahan school of poetry (Indian style)

Main Subjects

• History of Islamic Arts

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