The Style of Persian Sufi prose XI - XIII centuries

Abstract

Persian prose as opposed to poetry in the Middle Ages did not receive such a large development, and it has not been represented by such brilliantly masters as a poetry. The history of the creation of Adam and his expulsion from paradise has parameters of mediaeval feature story, in which an invention, series of events, the author’s interpretation of a familiar story present. The story in it develops from the string to the end, and it deals with the characters of the highest celestial spheres. The sources of epenthetic stories in 'Mirsad al-ibad' are Muslim traditions, folklore; part of the story is taken from written sources. Epenthetic stories are found not in all Sufi works or not always in large quantities. Folklore plot often found in medieval literatures, lies at the heart of the story about a man who asked the sheikh to tell him some of the mysteries of God.