جهان بيني جمال الدين عبدالرزاق اصفهاني

The World View of Jamal Ad-Din Abdorazzagh Al-Isfahani

Jamal Ad-Din Abdorazzagh Al-Isfahani is one of the great poets of the sixth century (A.H). Most of his poetry is devoted to the praise and encomium of the princes and dignitaries of his age. For this reason, he has been labelled a eulogistic lyricist. However, a close . examination of his numerous lamentations, composed with a view to criticizing the educational, social, and political conditions of his day, as well as a deep analysis of his odes written on wisdom and admonition, points to a characteristic world view which sets him apart from court poets totally given to panegyric. Such a world view attaches great importance to asceticism, renunciation of the world, seclusion, severence of connection with people, contentment, solitude, trust in God, and attainment of a voluntary death all of which constitute the main ingredients of his conception of the world. Jalal ad-Dinʹs world views, which have traces of a mystical stance showing through it, and which closely resemble that of Nizami of Ganja (known for his ascetic and pious mysticism), can be said to have resulted from the perturbed socio-political conditions of the sixteenth century (A.H)., from his aversion to the morally objectionable state of the age in which he Lived, and from his negative and rebellious reactions against the status quo.