ماهية الدّنيا في النّسق التّصوري الاستعاري العلوي في نهج البلاغة (على أساس نظرية علم الدلالة المعرفـي)

The World’s Nature in Metaphorical Imagery System of Imam Ali in Nahj al-Balagha (According to Cognitive Semantics)

Cognitive semantics has been reached to the top in the recent years and the conceptual metaphor is an important research topic in this field. Since metaphor is strictly blinded to thought and culture, the study of conceptual metaphors in religious texts will clarify some of the conceptual hidden dimensions of those texts. In an analytical method, this study tries to elaborate the world conceptual metaphors in Nahj al-Balagha, in order to identify the important conceptual metaphors in introducing the world and its styles and also the important properties of these metaphors and to study the relationship between these metaphors and religious culture of Imam Ali. The results of the present study show that the two metaphors of “the world is the home and the house” and “the world is a sly and cunning human” are the most important metaphors in Nahj al-Balagha in order to introduce the world. The important properties of these metaphors are being large in number and their diversity, their dynamics, their focus on religious concepts, and their appropriateness with religious concepts. Imam Ali has used a variety of conventional and new metaphors, appropriate and consistent with religious concepts and Quran language in order to introduce the world and its styles, and then changed the conventional metaphors based on the Islamic culture.