volume Number 10، number In Volume 4، Winter 2018 ، issue Number 38

Introducing the Content of the Book of Ascent of Mount Carmel by the St. John of the Cross and A Brief Comparison with the Fars Rasalat-Al-Taayrs

Shafagh Gholami Shabani(Author in Charge), Soheila Salahi Moghadam

Abstract
The Book of Ascent of mount Carmel, written by St. John the Cross, a 16th-century Spanish mystic, is one of the most famous works of the Spanish Church in the golden age of the mystical literature, written in a religious and preaching way, and explains progress of the soul through dark nights, which are it"s desires to achieve absolute perfection. This book is full of allegorical similes and analogies, described completely in the literary tradition of their time. The comparison of rhetorical elements in various literary texts is One of the sections in comparative literature. In this article, after introducing the Ascent of Mount Carmel, a comparative analysis of similarities and analogies between this book and its similar Iranian Islamic mystical works, Resalat_Al_Tayrs, has been made. The ultimate goal of these works is the soul"s journey to unity with God. In the mystical literature of all countries, there are issues such as progress of the soul, fighting with sensual desires, etc. However, the way in which these issues are expressed in the form of literary works is sometimes similar and sometimes different. In addition to the similarity of general content, there are similarities between these works, in the expression of some analogies and similes because one of the important factors that influences the production of a text and make it meaningful is the literary genre. "Sufism" as a genre, has both the method of expression and the necessary concepts, and the texts written in that field all have the same path and purpose. . Resalat _Al_Tayrs and Ascent of Mount Carmel are similar in the original , and the differences are in their details and the fictional structure of Resalat_Al-Tayrs and Non-Fictional structure of Ascent of Mount Carmel, which are based on the literary tradition of their time

Keyword
Ascent of Mount Carmel , Compression , Allegory , Simile , Resalat_Al_Tayr

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