Abstract:

As The French writer Stendhal Said, the novel is a mirror that reflects the life. Everything about humanity and society such as history, culture, language, religion, traditions etc. maybe the subject of a novel. Through a novel, one can get knowledge about the society’s structure, culture and issues of different eras. The religion and the sufism which were excluded by the effects of movements brought by westernization, such as positivism and materialism trends, were again started to handle by the all fields of literature after 1950. But the spread of subjects about sufism and mysticism in novels are belong after the year of 1980. With the great interest in spirituality all over the world, mystical subjects are turned into the open market. After a while, religious factors were converted to “object” and they were given to the service of capitalist mass culture. Under the effect of popular culture’s “public-oriented” and “patronizing character”, it is observed that the art concern was pushed to secondary plan in some of today’s sufistic novels. These kinds of popular authors aim to enter best-selling lists by promising the reader to meet their spiritual needs. Today, the existence of many novelists who try to weaken the effects of the similar novels written before them by exploiting the popular sufists or mystical personalities is an example to the corruption in literature. In such an environment, it is not possible that, neither sufism nor the art can gain. In this article, we will consider the effects and styles of popular novels to demonstrate which areas they serve

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