I. Bunin’s Conceptual Approach to Islamic Spiritual Truths and the Creation of the Image of the Muslim Prophet (Saw)

Abstract

The article analyzes the specifics of the embodiment of Islamic spiritual truths and the embodiment of the theme of prophecy in the work of I. Bunin, emphasizes the importance of the poet’s worldview, and clarifies the role of the sacred meanings of the Koran and its impact on Bunin’s poetic imagination. Bunin writes a lot and enthusiastically about the East, often reflects on the peculiarities of the Eastern worldview, highlights the depth of what he has read about the Holy Scriptures of Muslims, and admires the depth of the poetic images of the Koran. His vision of the East is extraordinary. For him, this is the cradle of civilization, this is the birthplace of three religions. Bunin clearly separates boundaries and spaces, seeing in it Jerusalem as the Old Testament East, Arabia as the Arab-Muslim East, and India as the Buddhist East. The division of the East into three components helps us understand the degree of Bunin’s deep interest in this continental designation, representing his reading of the world. Bunin believes that the East is a designation of the civilizational component of the world. The Arab East stuns the poetic imagination of the writer. The depth of Bunin’s discoveries about this side of the world, unknown to him, testifies to his acceptance of the ideas of the Muslim East, a deep reading of the new worldview, which appears in Bunin’s poetry as a separate, closed world with its own conceptual sphere of philosophical, religious, moral, ethical and aesthetic ideas. In this regard, the verses are very interesting, directly consonant with the disclosure of the image of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in the poet’s work. It is important to note that his fascination with the Koran was for him the logical conclusion of the ideas of the Old Testament God, and he perceived this Holy Scripture as indicating the special importance of the polyphony of the world. It was the Koran, together with the Bible, that became an expression of truth for Bunin, and this doubling of cultural parameters in his work became amazing proof of the perception of the universal truth about life and about man, helping to understand the artistic continuum of I. Bunin’s creativity. He was excited by the ideas of the Koran, his interest was not just curiosity, it was a completely conscious understanding of orientality, of which the Koran was a part, where the poet, writer, creator discovered a new understanding of the world. The desire to see what deeply concerns him, to touch the origins of many civilizational principles emphasizes the immutability of Bunin’s adherence to the Koranic meanings and realities.