Analysis and study of Aql-e Sorkh Treatise penned by Sohrawardi based on Todorov theory

Majid Hushangi. PH.D

Fatemeh Jafari

Abstract

In this study, efforts have been made to analyze and study the narrative and structural integrity of Aql-e Sorkh treatise of the acclaimed Iranian philosopher and mystic, Shahab Ed-Din Sohrawardi, based on narrative norms and the theory of literary critic, Tzvetan Todorov. Upon the consideration of role models and the grammar of the text, it was concluded that Sohrawardi has made use of the unity of narrators and has expressed four series in a narration which matches the approach of Illuminism school of thought, and has taken advantage of the element of time to exit the linear repetition, while getting close to modern narrations.