Investigating the Political Discursive Act of Diʿbal al Khuzāʿī and Its Role in Promoting Razavi Culture Using Pierre Ansart’s Theory

Mjidi, Hassan

doi:10.22034/farzv.2025.487473.2042

Investigating the Political Discursive Act of Diʿbal al Khuzāʿī and Its Role in Promoting Razavi Culture Using Pierre Ansart’s Theory

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Hassan Mjidi

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Imam Sadegh University,Tehran, Iran: h.majidi@isu.ac.ir

https://doi.org/10.22034/farzv.2025.487473.2042

Abstract

Language and its manifestation in speech and discourse, especially in a society whose people are famous for their literature and verbal art, cannot be free from political dimension and function. De bel Khozaee (256-148 AH) with a life span of nearly a century used speech and poetry to expand the culture of the Imams and Confront with the Abbasid political culture, and left behind an effective legacy. The present article, with a historical, descriptive, analytical approach and documentary method, seeks to present a vivid picture of the functions of the political speech act of De bel Khozaee, the poet of the Ahl ol-Bayt, during his long life, especially in the era of Imam Reza (AS). The theoretical framework of the present article is the relationship between language and ideology in the thought of Pierre Pierre Ansart t(1922-2016). Based on his thought, language gives meaning and direction to political action. Language is an important tool for political actors to realize the act of rebellion and revolution or stabilization. The findings of this article show that De bel’s political poetry, in the form of satire and criticism of the caliphs of the time, from the Umayyads to the Abbasids, and in the act of consolidation in the form of praise and lamentation of the Ahl ol-Bayt, and defense of their legitimacy, expressing the lamentations of the infallibles and praising the descendants, especially the praise and lamentation of Imam Reza (a.s.), has made De bel famous in consolidating the Razavi culture with revolutionary action and preventing the dominance of the culture opposed to the Ahl ol-Bayt. De bel ‘s poetic language depicts the legitimacy of the discourse of the Imamate, by depicting the legitimacy, competence, and at the same time the oppression of the infallibles, may God bless them and grant them peace, and exposing the injustices, betrayals, inadequacies, and cruelty and injustice of the Abbasid rulers. . De bel’s revolutionary action is in such a way that instead of a language full of mystery and obscurantism; By using clear and straightforward odes, he targeted a large audience in the vast Muslim lands of his time.

Keywords

De bel Khozaee

Imam Reza

political speech act

praise

humor

satire

Subjects

Promotion and deepening of Razavi culture and education

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