Mowlana Jalal al-Din of Balkh, known as Mowlawi, pays great attention to the mysteries of knowledge and its delicacies in his poetical work Mathnawi. Though sociology of knowledge in its present sense is a branch of modern sciences, such novel views are found out in his ideas as well.
He regards thought as the existing condition of being, hence recognizes its pivotal role in all walks of human life. He therefore pays tribute to the role of thought in its social context and poses such discussions which evidence the effect of human social life on knowledge, thought, and culture.
Among the significant issues he poses is the mission of the Prophets which he regards as of a perfect social value. He portraits them as doctors who are after curing the diseases of humanknowledge.
Mowlana also rejects the idea of the relativity and/or plurality of realities, but, at the same time, he puts forward a solution for the socio-cultural relativity of knowledge by introducing the numerousness of outlooks on the world; he sees this as a cause for the variety of views.
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