Criticism of mystic terms in Moin's  Persian dictionary

Abbaszadeh, Behzad; Moshtaghmehr, Rahman; Goli, Ahmad

doi:10.22124/plid.2025.29066.1703

Criticism of mystic terms in Moin's Persian dictionary

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Phd student of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran;

² Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran ;

10.22124/plid.2025.29066.1703

Abstract

This study is a review of the quality and quantity of the definitions of mysticism and Sufism terms in a Moin's Persian dictionary. In this dictionary, about 574 mysticism and Sufism terms are defined with a brief approach. The results show that despite the fact that mentioning the detailed guidelines about the term and terminology in the introduction has been neglected; But the system of phonetic transcription and marking of terms is uniform. Definitions are far from complicated expressions and are close to the language of audience. there are no extreme references and quotations to ancient prose texts. Only 51% of the definitions, in a short form, are quoted from the texts. In the definition of terms, the dictionary relies on prose texts, especially the thesauruses and works of Jafar Sajjadi, and the example of poetry is very weak and limited. the system of choosing Sufism terms is not clear. And there are words that, despite having mystical definitions, are not considered part of Sufism terms;, the authors conduct a quantitative and qualitative review of Sufi terms in this dictionary with a critical attitude and by extracting terms from the dictionary, accurate statistics from the sources used, and poetic.

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