Bright Growth in the Darkness: Mysticism in Selected English and Kurdish Poems
Ibrahim Ali Murad
University of Garmian , College of Education - English Department
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3,4,17
Keywords: Mystic Concept Eastern Spirit Camps western
Abstract
Mysticism and its relevant associate, mystic, are so complicated words
and concepts that dealing with them needs a very minute care and
pierce look and observation. To worsen the case, eastern and western
centers of knowledge differ in some aspects about the two concepts
and even sometimes are at odds with each other. This study, therefore,
is an attempt to clarify the bridge between the two camps in this respect
and show the cases and states in which they differ as far as mystic and
mysticism are concerned. The study hypothesizes some key
resemblance and other disagreements due to the religious impacts on
each party. It tries to reach possible conclusions through five sections
that discuss the hypothesis in brief. It goes through some definitions
of the concept, its origin in the east and the west, and some types of
mysticism. The result is a good number of conclusions like the fact
that for the English mystic poet, man is God and God is man; while
their Kurdish counterparts stress that the spirit that dwells within man
is divine because it is sent by God. These attempts and achievements
were done thanks to a number of first hand English and Kurdish
academic sources about the subject.
