Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2009

Full Length Research Paper

The comparative study: Aesthetic and love in Hafiz and Goethe’s poetry in order to awaken and bring perfection in global education

Seyed Mahdi Sajjadi
  • Seyed Mahdi Sajjadi
  • Department of Education, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
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Zainab Mahdavi
  • Zainab Mahdavi
  • Department of Education, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
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  •  Accepted: 06 November 2013
  •  Published: 13 December 2013

Abstract

In the middle of eighteen century, sources of the East were considered by European visitors. Accordingly, Hafiz (c.1320-1329) was one of these sources that influenced one of the greatest poets and thinkers of German. Goethe severely in his West-östlicher Divan disclosed that Hafiz’s poems attracted him. In this essay, we explain influence of Hafiz on Goethe. In addition, the effect of love and aesthetic illustrated remove distances and keep nations and cultures closer in a common education in order to global unity as Hafiz and Goethe  pointed it. Also, it investigates penetrating of globalization on international education, according to the Goethe and Hafiz’s view.

Key words: Aesthetic education, global education, comparative education, Hafiz, Goethe.