مثنوی اور قرآن کریم میں نور کی علامتی معنویت: ایک اشراقی مطالعہ اور بلاغی تجزیہ: Symbolic Representations of Light in the Mathnawi and the Qur’an: An Illuminationist Reading and Rhetorical Analysis
Al-NASR September 30, 2023 Hafiz Mansoor Ahmad (Corresponding Author)
This paper examines the symbolism of light in Jalal al-Din Rumi’s Mathnawi and the Qur’an through the lens of Illuminationist (Ishrāqī) philosophy and classical rhetorical analysis. Light, as a central metaphysical and spiritual symbol in Islamic thought, functions simultaneously as an ontological principle and a rhetorical device. The study explores how Qur’anic imagery of light informs Rumi’s...