The Need for Interpretive Procedures in Sufi Discourse: An Applied Study of Selected Poetic Verses by Ibn Arabi

Abstract

The modern literary criticism was guided to the reciteral method which we believe gives the text infinite definitions. So that each recipient- according to receptivity theories- adds a new dimension and enriches it in some way. Here we can point to the development of meaning and its reproduction, The meaning as a signifier has an indicative. The semantic blackout that characterizes the mystic speech has put it in a high degree of ambiguity which demands the availability of a lump of knowledges and procedures to unlock its codes. This research was made to look into the recipient’s ability to understand the coding system in the mystic speech and search for the procedures that the recipient should do towards the predicament of receiving the mystic speech, and to gather the knowledge of true motives as to why the mystics rely on coded language. A sum of results were reached through this research of which the most important is that the reciteral activity is considered a necessity in the mystic speec. Thus the recital of implicit meanings in the mystic speech depends entirely on the reciteral effort of the recipie