“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

Studying the Similarities of Opinions in the Works of Naser Khosrow and Ahmad Kasravi

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Kazem Hashemi 1
Ahmad Khajehim 2
1 PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran
Abstract
Naser Khosrow is an Ismaili sage and poet who tries to express his Ismaili thoughts and beliefs in the form of poetry and prose. Ahmad Kasravi is also a contemporary thinker who founded the socio-political movement of "Pakdini" to cleanse the Iranian masses of intellectual pollution and published his beliefs and thoughts first in the magazine "Peeman" and then in the newspaper "Parcham". When we examine the works and lives of Naser Khosrow and Ahmad Kasravi, we see that the two are similar in various aspects. More precisely, it seems that in some of his thoughts, Naser Khosrow is one of Ahmad Kasravi's intellectual pioneers. It is as if Kasravi has made Naser Khosrow his model. The aim of this article, which is compiled using a descriptive-analytical method and using library resources, is to criticize and examine the common views in the thoughts of Naser Khosrow and Ahmad Kasravi. Criticism and protest, internal transformation, authoritarianism, committed literature, exclusivism, rationalism, and reformism are common elements that can be seen in the thoughts of Naser Khosrow and Kasravi. They never turned back from their thoughts. In the end, one became a refugee in Yamgan and the other died in court.
Keywords
Naser Khosrow
Ahmad Kasravi
Ismailiyya
Pakdini
Reformism
Subjects
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“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”
Volume 4, Issue 2 - Serial Number 8
autumn and winter 2025
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