An Analysis of Legitimization in Mawlawi Tawagozi’s Collection of Poems

Abstract

Said Abdulraheem Mullah Sa’eed Ma’doomi Tawagozi one of the great Kurdish Arifs. Because of his outstanding talent for writing poetry, Mawlawi has been able to convey great meanings with a minimum of words. As this Arif is a follower of the Naqishbandi tariqa, he describes praises and mourns the death of its great people. He wants to create a reliable discourse; since if not trustworthy, a discourse will vanish and demolish. Hence, his discourse aims at achieving legitimacy so the .audience accepts and trusts it This study tries to understand those dimensions and meanings of Mawlawi’s collection that require analyses of the relation between the text and its cultural and social context. The main goal of this method is to demonstrate how a given text, using persuasive language, can legitimize a discourse. It also shows how to legitimize their own words concerning the Qur’an, Hadith, mind, myth, etc. In the introduction, we shed light on legitimization and Mawlawi’s viewpoint regarding this topic. In the theoretical part, we discuss theories of discourse analysis and the theory of legitimization, while the final part of the research is an analysis of Mawlawi’s poems using the abovementioned theories. The conclusions of the research show that legitimization is mostly a result of referring to .the Qur’an and the Hadiths of the prophet.