Saeb and Bade Mansouri

Abstract

Hossein Mansour Hallaj, who is better known as Hallaj in Persian literature and popular  culture of Iranians, is one of the most famous figures of Iranian Islamic mysticism, and his  name, memory, and life events are widely present in Persian literature, both mystical and  romantic literature. Saeb Tabrizi, a high-ranking Iranian poet in the Indian style, is no  exception to this and composed many verses with the name and memory of Hallaj. Since the  poets of the Indian style looked at the subjects more as materials for creating themes, their  view of the subjects was not a fixed line of thought. Saeb has also displayed a lot of diversity  and difference in the way he looks at Hallaj in various stages of his Diwan and in creating the  theme of Hallaj's name and memory, and we can see an ascending-descending are about  Hallaj in Saeb's Diwan. In the present article, an attempt has been made to draw Hallaj's  position in Saeb's Court by relying on two descriptive and analytical methods and by relying  on Saeb Tabrizi's sonnets. The findings of this article are indicative of Saeb's heterogeneous  view of Hallaj, to the extent that he sometimes portrays Hallaj as a trembling coward and  sometimes shows him as a brave rebel who understood the secret of unity and shared it with  the world. Rather than expressing a coherent thought about Hallaj, these differences represent  Saeb's vast imaginations and his power of thematization, and it is following this use of  imagination and thematization that Saeb also makes the name "Hallaj" (cotton woman) the  origin of his poetic imagery and imaginations.