ELEMENTS OF THE SUFI ARTISTIC TRADITION IN THE POEM BY M. AKHMEDOV “THE SHEIKH FROM CHIRKEY”

Abstract

The article considers one of the poems “The Sheikh from Chirkey” by M. Akhmedov, a modern Avar poet. The researcher analyzes features of the Sufi artistic tradition in the poem under consideration. The relevance of the topic under study lies in the fact that previously published articles about the poetry of M. Akhmedov do not reveal or even touch on the Sufi artistic traditions that are characteristic of his poem and his poetic work in general. The purpose of the study is to reveal artistic features of the poem “The Sheikh from Chirkey” of a Sufi nature through the prism of the concept of a mystical understanding of the world and man. The focus is on the artistic interpretation of Sufi motifs, symbols and images that reveal the philosophical meaning of a person’s fate in the poem by the example of the main character of the poem, the sheikh from Chirkey. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that this article is the first attempt to analyze Sufi artistic traditions, motives and images in the religious and literary aspect; to give our own scientific interpretation of the text of the poem we have chosen in the context of the development of Sufi thought in modern Avar poetry. The results of the study show that the Sufi artistic traditions in M. Akhmedov’s poem are revealed through the understanding of a person’s spiritual experience, his ethical and aesthetic potentials on the way to self-improvement, to the knowledge of human existence. The main creative act is a symbolic expression of an eschatological event – the death of Said-apandi from Chirkei. The explosion of the self-consciousness of the author of the poem against the background of this event eventually leads him to realize that the end of a person’s life is the beginning of his new path.