Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 18، number In Volume 2، May 2025 ، issue Number 108

Death and Resurrection in the Garshasbnameh, Bahmannameh, and Borzunameh

Safora Mirbaha , Ataullah Koopal (Author in Charge), Nastaran Safari

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Fear and anxiety about the passage of time and the end of worldly life have always been the main concerns of mankind, and liberation from death and finding the water of life and the plant of youth to become immortal have become the motifs of the creation of world myths. In fact, epic death is the meeting point of pleasure with the deepest sorrow in a collective narrative; it is the meeting point of two conflicting ideas: mortality and immortality. In the epic narrative, death finds a deep connection with survival, and the individual, in his identification with the hero of the epic, finds survival in death. In this regard, the present article examines the two key concepts of "death and resurrection" in the poetic systems of the Garshasbnameh, Bahmannameh, and Borzunamah. The main emphasis in this research is on revealing the ethical issues and the religious and doctrinal themes in these works about death.

METHODOLOGY: The article uses a descriptive-analytical method to comparatively examine the similarities and differences in the attitudes of the three aforementioned epics towards the issue of death and resurrection. In this study, the researchers seek to explain how Garshasbnameh, Bahmannameh and Borzonameh view the issue of death and resurrection.

FINDINGS: The aforementioned epic poets, in their dealings with death, often come up with concepts such as the emptiness of the world, its disloyalty, the predestination and inevitability of death, the mystery of the world and the impermanence of its work. In the epic world, due to the warlike atmosphere and the confrontation with death, all heroes have always faced the issue of death. These heroes choose death while they could easily avoid it or fight it. Therefore, their death gives another meaning to life.

CONCLUSION: In general, it can be said that the purpose of these poets in addressing death is to strengthen the courage of the heroes and not to fear the enemy, to die for the glory of Iran, and to defend the homeland with a self-willed death. In fact, their insistence on showing the impermanence of this world in comparison with the eternity of the hereafter is to show the insignificant and unimportant pleasures and worldly attachments in line with choosing death and not to fear it; this is because the Iranian heroes considered heaven to belong to those who die in the defense of their homeland and its ideals.

Keyword
Borzuname , Bahmaname , Garshasbname , Death , Resurrection , Epic

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