Revisiting the Shaṭḥiyyāt of Bayazid: Applying the Semiotic–Semantic Model to the Understanding of the Shaṭḥiyyāt of Bayazid Bastami
Treasury of Persian Language and Literature 2026 Navid Raisi, Morteza Heidari, Ebrahim Akbari
Shaṭḥiyyāt, as the most prominent manifestations of ecstatic mystical discourse, transcend the boundaries of conventional language and constitute the most direct expressions of a mystic’s revelatory experiences. A review of the scholarly literature concerning the shaṭḥiyyāt of Bayazid Bastami reveals that most studies have focused on content-based interpretation, the elucidation of mystical...