Document Type : applied research

Author

• Yousef Mohammadnezhad Alizaminin

Faculty Member of the Institute of Language and Literature, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Time is a key concept in Islamic mysticism that has been conceptualized in different ways and reflected in mystical texts under the influence of mystics' lived experiences. By studying this concept and how it is conceptualized and represented in the works of mystics, a more accurate analysis of the attitudes and experiences of the owners of these works in different situations and times can be offered. Therefore, in the present article, we intend to answer the question of how and under what influence Rumi defined the concept of time in the studied poems by examining and analyzing the application of the concept of time and some related linguistic interpretations in the first volume of Shams. Has conceptualized contexts. The analytical approach of this research is Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conceptual metaphor, which from the point of view of cognitive linguistics, in explaining the concept of "time", have introduced the primary idea of "time is object" and the secondary ideas of "time is moving and fixed". The result of this research shows that Rumi described time with the ideas of "time as a moving object", "time as a fixed object", "time as an enclosed space and space", "time as a treasure" and "time". As a human being

Keywords

• Conceptual metaphor
• time
• mapping
• Shams lyric poems