Fayd Kashani and the Ghazal Form: How Poetry Becomes a Path to the Divine | Persian Poetry Podcast

🔹Host: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
🔹Co-host: Reyhaneh Davoodi-Kahaki
🔹Consultant: Mohammad Davoodi
🔹Music: ‪@amirmohamdmonjezi‬
Learn how Fayd Kāshānī, the Safavid philosopher-poet, transforms the Persian ghazal into a spiritual and philosophical journey. In this video, we explore how the ghazal’s lyrical freedom and modular form enable Fayd to express the gradual ascent of the soul toward divine union—a theme that resonates with Mulla Ṣadrā’s doctrine of the gradational unity of existence (tashkīk al-wujūd).

✨ You’ll learn:
🔹The ghazal’s structure and its mystical-philosophical function
🔹Fayd’s connection to Sadrian metaphysics and mystical love
🔹How repetition and rhythm in the ghazal serve as a form of dhikr
🔹Why Persian poetry functions as a contemplative exercise

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