Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Guilan, Guilan University, Iran

2 Ph.D. Student in Persian Language and Literature, Guilan, Guilan University, Iran

Abstract

Categorizing things into good and evil is as old as the creation of man, and it is the way people face each other that determines whether phenomena are good or bad. Evil includes a wide range of concepts, and one of the most important and controversial concepts is political evil, whose most important indicators are the friend-enemy duality and the preoccupation with gaining power. Religion, with the aim of permanence, and to defend its legitimacy, uses the defensive function of speech in line with political purposes; As a result, religions and creeds are defined in opposition to each other, they are called evil and they try to destroy the other. The Ismailiyeh, from the path of Ismaili language and in confrontation and hostility with the Abbasid government, attribute the Abbasids and their followers to all kinds of evil and introduce them as a cruel government and clear examples of evil. Nasser Khosrow, as a high-level Ismaili thinker, using the structure of Ismaili thinking, while explaining what evil is and categorizing and describing its types, considers it necessary to avoid evil and destroy the enemy (which is the main cause of human misery). In this article, we intend to analyze the discussion of evil and enmity in Nasser Khosrow's intellectual system with the descriptive-analytical method and rely on the theory of "hostility" by Carl Schmitt.

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