Islamic Art Studies

Islamic Art Studies

the semantic function of color in Attar's Masnavi in adaptation with lyrical paintings of Bahram Goor's Haft Gonbad

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohammadreza Shah Karami 1
Ghasem Sahraei 2
Ali Heydari 3
1 PhD Candidate, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
2 PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
3 PhD, Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
10.22034/ias.2022.320995.1830
Abstract
Poets in different periods have used the color element to induce their desired meanings and concepts. The color element is one of the key and widely used points in Attar's Masnavi. He has used the power of associating the meanings of colors artistically and often using rhetorical elements. This research shows how Attar has used the element of color and which meanings and concepts have been expressed and displayed with the help of colors. The data collection tool and the data collection method are libraries. The research method is descriptive-analytical.
Achieving the role of colors in expressing mental meanings and concepts, as well as the use of abstract colors to express some of the important mystical concepts desired by the poet, are among the achievements of this research.
The result shows that in Attar Masnavi, the frequency of two colors, black and white, is higher than other colors and abstract colors have the lowest frequency. The most desirable colors in Attar's intellectual system are abstract colors and have much broader meanings than ordinary colors and are often made by the poet's own mind. Sometimes colors in the lyrical and romantic semantic context have found a semantic and rhetorical function to express physical beauty in order to explain mystical teachings.
Keywords
Attar Masnavi
Color
Abstract Concepts
Non-Abstract Concepts
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