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Abstract
This dissertation detects the extent to which Doris Lessing is affected by Sufism. It explores the principles of West em Sufism headed by Idries Shah to whom Lessing submits a great deal of her fictional work. The study alms at tracing how the protagonists of Lessing’s novels echo and accentuate their writer’s faith in Shah’s Sufism. It also refers to the other two phases of Lessing’s writing, i.e. Communism and Feminism.
This study is divided into four- chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. The fIrst chapter offers a background about Western Sufism. It explains those principles of Shah’s Sufism in detail. It also sheds light on how and why Lessing is attached
By centring on Lessing’s Nobel prized novel The Golden Notebook, chapter two explores the development of Anna Wulf, the novel’s protagonist, until she reaches the truth. It depicts the phases of her conflict and division till the end of the novel when
she is able to be unified in one persona represented in the
golden notebook.
Chapter three tackles the interrelationship between the one and oneself as well as the one and the whole in Lessing’s Briefingfor a Descent into Hell and The Memoirs of a Survivor. In Briefing, we see Charles Watkins become sane only when he is integrated with his innermost self. In Memoirs, the unnamed protagonist goes through an inner wall in her apartment as if she were passing to her unconscious mind so as to reconcile with herself at first then with the society where she lives.
Chapter four enhances the concept of circularity, i.e. the part could not be separated from the whole, by focusing on Lessing’s Shikasta. This chapter deals with Lessing’s first novel in her space-fiction series titled Canopus in Argos: Archives. Shikasta is the fictional planet that symbolises our real Earth. In Shikasta, Lessing delineates the decline of the planet as a result of its increasing division. She also detects the degradation of the Shikastans in the Time of Destruction, i.e. the twentieth , To overcome this catastrophe, Lessing evokes the
idea that the Shikastans must be attuned to the Divine for Shikasta to be integrated in the whole cosmic system
Finally, the conclusion offers the results this research has reached through studying the impact of Sufism on Lessing’s
fictional works.