Conception of a sign in the philosophy of hurufism by Nasimi and Naimi in the context of Turkic-Azerbaijani tradition

Abstract

Imadeddin Nasimi is a great Azerbaijani poet and martyr of Sufism, executed by religious fanatics for his extraordinary thoughts and statements that contradicted the official ideology. Nasimi and his associate, Fazlullah Naimi, are the leading representatives of Hurufism, the medieval Sufi philosophy and the theory of sign systems, that is, if one may so express it, medieval «structuralism» or semiotics. The conception of the sign of Naimi and Nasimi is fundamentally different from the European in such a high degree of integrity and internal unity of the sign, which has never been in Western semiotics.