Ta`wil as Dramaturgy and Performing Mechanism in Suhrawardi`s Aql-i-Sorkh (the Red Intellect) in the light of H. Corbin`s Hermetical Interpretation

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of Theater,

2 Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Center Tehran Branch, Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Art Research, Arts Faculty, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.30480/dam.2024.5272.1887

Abstract

This research aims to show a special dramaturgical method in Aql-i-Sorkh as one of Suhrewardi`s Recitals and finally introduce this text and other recitals written by Suhrawardi as a performing text. Henry Corbin repeatedly pointed out the dramaturgical aspect in Suhrawardi's recitals, and the present study will try to explain Ta`wil as the main element of this dramaturgical mechanism. Ta`wil allows Suhrawardi to combine his literary, philosophical and religious heritage, lexical or oral, and contemporize them in a mystical Drama. This research shows how we can re-identify these recitals as a performance text by re-narrating them in Ta`wil as a special method. The present research by establishing a relationship between a type of performance which is the lineal descendant of the sacred or esoteric theater, such as what can be seen in the works of Artaud and Grotowski and the dramaturgical method of Suhrawardi reveals that Aql-i-Sorkh and other plays of Sheikh Eshraq can be considered as reports of a ritual/Gnostic performance and new performances can be achieved by reinterpreting and contemporizing them. This concept of contemporization, while maintaining Gnostic links, will communicate with the simultaneous concepts of each author and, accordingly, the audience of the performance, and in this way, interpretation as the main element of Suhrawardi's dramaturgical mechanism provides the ability to produce an endless chain of text/performance, which will be applicable at any time with the contemporary form and structure of that time.

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Volume 15, Issue 37
September 2024
Pages 121-136

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