Russian journal of cultural studies and communication.

The Poet’s Knowledge of God: The Work of Parvin Etesami in the Context of the Iranian Spiritual Tradition

Russian journal of cultural studies and communication. April 19, 2024 T. A. Koshemchuk, M. L. Reysner, Marzieh Yahyapour

The subject of this article is the mystical poetry of Parvin Etesami (1907–1941). In it, we analyse the religious foundations of the poet’s work of the first half of the twentieth century (a turning point in Persian culture), which continue the Persian tradition of searching for God on the paths laid by her predecessors and express her knowledge of God in old poetic forms ( monazere, qasida )...