Myth, sacred place, sacred time, Bakhtiar Ali, the city of white musicians, parwana's sunset, the last pomegranate in the world.

Abstract

The sacred time and sacred place are one of the most widely used concepts in the mythological world. These two concepts have long preoccupied the human mind to an extent that we find them in contemporary fiction today. It is as if the sacred time and sacred place have opened the way into modern novels from the mythical world and are re-emerged with a different perspective.

Bakhtiar Ali is one of the writers who has repeatedly used these concepts in the labyrinth of his novels and illustrated them alongside other modern elements and concepts. The present article attempts to study why and how these two concepts are used in the novels (the City of White Musicians,  Parwana’s sunset and The Last Pomegranate of the World.)