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A two days seminar by Daryuosh Ashouri
Daryoush Ashouri is the author of several books and many articles
on political science, socio-cultural studies, and literary criticism.
As lexicologist and terminologist he has compiled bilingual
dictionaries for philosophy and human sciences and contributed
extensively to the development of modern scientific and
philosophical vocabulary in Persian language.
Title of the seminar: A Hermeneutical Approach to the Conceptual
Structure of the Divan of Hafiz.
Date: Monday February 26, Tuesday February 27
Time: 7:00 to 10:00 P.M.
Place: Dwinelle Hall, Room 83
University of California, Berkeley
Registration fee: $75
UC Berkeley students can join for free.
Lecture will be in Persian.
Space for the class is limited, if you are interested please send an
e-mail to <mailto:naji@jps.net>naji@jps.net by February 22.
Main Topics of the seminar:
--"Hafiz-shenasi" in contemporary Iran as a symptom of crisis
in modern Iranian cultural and intellectual identity. The
contradictional and unmethodical approaches to the
interpretation of Hafiz, from traditional to pseudo-modern.
--In search of a methodological approach: modern philosophical
hermeneutics as a way to systematic understanding of Hafiz:
historicity and intertextuality as a basic hermeneutical approach.
--The most direct intertextual basis in two Sufi hermenutical
texts for fundamental disclosure of the metaphors and symbols in
the Divan of Hafiz: Kashf-al-asrar of Rashid al-Din Meybodi and
Mersad al-ebad of Najim al-Din Razi.
--The Sufi hermeneutics of the myth of original Sin and Fall on the
basis of Koranic narration: the interpretation of this myth as
ontological necessity.
--Adam, the first man created by God, as primordial archetype of the
man as Lover of the Eternal Sweetheart, in contrast to the angelic
apposition toward God: the pre-eternal destiny of Adam and his descents
as carriers of Being's "burden of trust".
--The centrality of the Sufi hermeneutics of the myth of Original Sin
and Fall for the development of the mytho-poetical heritage of the
mystical literature in Persian language.
--Different stages in the development of Sufi discourse: from
the early ascetic worldviews to mysticism of love and its final
development into mysticism of rendi.
--Gradual development of the mysticism of rendi in the metaphorical and
symbolic idiom of the Sufi poetics in Persian language.
--The direct relationship of the poetry of Hafiz with Sufi hermeneutics
of Koran: the basic mystical metaphors and symbols in poetry of Hafiz.
--The sensual allusions and metaphors in Persian mystical poetry, in
general, and in Divan of Hafiz, in particular, vis-à-vis the ascetic
spirituality and philosophical rationality.
--Fundamental tenets of the mysticism of rendi: fundamental ontological
situation of the Man as rend in contrast to the "ascetic" situation of
the Angels, with reference to the Adam and his pre-eternal existential
constitution and experience as primordial archetype of rendi: contrast
of zohd and rendi as two essential existential situations in poetry of Hafiz.
--The "philosophy" of rendi as worldview of Hafiz and final logical
conclusion of the Sufi hermeneutics of Koran.
--The "world-play" as final ontological view in "philosophy" of rendi,in
contrast to the teleological views of the theology and philosophy in
Islamic tradition.
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