Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Associate Professor of Persian language and literature, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2 (Corresponding Author) Postdoctoral researcher of Persian language and literature, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Introduction
Since the second half of the 5th century, Muslim poets, using imaginative literary language, have allocated a part of their divan to clarifying the issue of Miraj. Based on the event of the ascension of distinguished people in general and the Prophet’s (pbuh) Miraj in particular, written or illustrated travelogues with the title of Mirajnameh/Mirajnegari -illustration of ascension- have appeared among different nations and religions. Today, with the development of academic disciplines and subdisciplines, the scientific discussion and study on the event of the Prophet’ (pbuh) Miraj has further expanded; and in addition to language and literature experts who have conducted research on the literary aspect of written Mirajnamehs, artists and religious scholars have considered this event from an artistic and qualitative point of view and investigated its various aspects. Considering the variety of topics and the dispersion of the research conducted in the field of the Prophet’s Miraj in various academic disciplines and also the existence of research gaps in this fields, it seems that exerting a meta- analysis method and an interdisciplinary approach in conducting a research on the Prophet’s Miraj can be useful and fruitful with respect to conducting more goal –oriented futures studies on this event, linking knowledge domains and paving the way for future studies.
The questions and hypotheses of this research are as follows:
-What is the position of the Prophet’s Miraj in academic research?
-What is the purpose and method of writing that?
-What are the research gaps in the field of Meraj studies?
Due to the attention of religious scholars, poets and illustrators in the production of content in the field of Miraj, these works have received the attention of religious, literary and artistic disciplines and researchers of these scientific branches. Some of these researches seek macro academic goals, but at the same time, they have suffered a gap in terms of interdisciplinary research and modern criticism. In these researches, regarding methodology, each study has its own method. According to what is considered as an example in this article, some researches have been done on the issue of Miraj until today, but a research that can examine all these works with the method of meta-analysis and interdisciplinary approach was not found in any source.
Methodology
In the present article, following the meta-analysis method, we are looking to conduct a qualitative research based on library and documentary research. For this purpose, a total of 61 articles that met the criteria for meta-analysis will be examined in terms of research method, sampling situation, theoretical approach of the articles, research framework and its main dimensions.
Findings
From the review of a total of 61 articles on the Prophet’s Miraj that published in the academic quarterly journals and approved by the Ministry of Science, the following findings can be obtained: Researches in the field of the Prophet’s Miraj in academic quarterly journals are divided into 7 topics: Literary, historical- mythological, mystical, religious, philosophical, artistic and interdisciplinary fields. Mostly a descriptive- analytical method and library tools have been used in the conducted studies and most of the authors have turned to an adaptive-comparative approach. These studies have been written with various goals. The most comprehensive research structure includes introduction, discussion, conclusion, and references. The remaining parts of the article, which generally have a special and distinct place in the articles today, are mentioned in other parts; For instance, the literature review and method mentioned in the introduction or the theoretical framework included in the beginning of the discussion. All the researches are pure researches. In other words, the authors did not apply the results. On the one hand, this is one of the weaknesses of the reviewed researches, and on the other hand, it will be inspiring in conducting future researches. Scientific researches in the field of Miraj among different sciences generally started from 2006, and if an article was written before this year, it was not indexed electronically. Most of the written articles are related to the 1990s. Out of the total of 39 academic quarterly journals in which these articles were published , ‘Negareh’ quarterly journal with 6 frequency , and ‘Comparative art studies’ and ‘Islamic art studies’ with 5 frequency have the most articles in this field.
Discussion and conclusion
By comparing the results obtained in the research process of Meraj field, we realized that some research gaps are visible in specialized fields. Examining the aesthetic effects of Mirajnamehs, examining Mirajiyehs- texts written about Miraj- and Mirajnegaries from the perspective of modern criticism, intertextual review of the works of this field, understanding the belief elements of different eras, pursuing the rejection of symbolic aphoristic, mystical and religious topics in the Mirajnegaries, understanding the viewpoints of jurists of different religions about Miraj, Tracing the verses and hadiths of the Miraj in various works, reaching the viewpoint of mystics , philosophers ,sages and theologians, poets or writers about the quality of Miraj, enriching study resources in the field of Miraj, reaching an acceptable global model for Mirajnamehs and Mirajnegaries, better understanding of the vision and ideology of the Ascensionists and ascension illustratores; and understanding the types of scene setting in Mirajnegaries are among these approaches and suggestions.
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