Comparative study of the educational aspects of two concepts of justice and love in the Attar`s Tazkerat ol-Awlia and Mantiq ot-Tayr

Subject Areas : شاهنامه

Seyede Maryam Rowzatian ¹ , Fatemeh Sadat Madani ²

1 - Associate professor of Persian language and literature, University of Isfahan.
2 - MA of Persian language and literature, University of Isfahan.

Received: 2017-09-13 Accepted : 2017-09-13 Published : 2017-05-22

Keywords: Attar Neishabouri, Tazkerat ol-Awlia, Mantiq ot-Tayr, Language differences, educational aspects,

Abstract :

There is no doubt that a significant part of the mystical works have emerged by educational goals and each of various writers and poets have regard to mysticism with a particular perspective. Some of them have handled a difficult language, so special people pay attention to them, but some others have used simple language, so they have widened their audience range. Attar Neishabouri is one of them. Although many works have been attributed to him, all of his works are seven. Using allegory and anecdotes is his favorite style. Therefore, we can find common concepts and anecdotes between Tazkerat ol-Awlia and his Masnavis which are based on numerous anecdotes. Among these works, in this study we focus on common anecdotes betwee Tazkerat ol-Awlia and Mantiq ot-Tayr. This study done within the two concepts: justice and the difference between unreal love and real love. The goal is to be shown that there are some difference between those two books for explaining these concepts. So it shows that which of these books has stronger educational aspects. This study will show that Attar has used different style in each book and he consciously changed his rhetoric to teach a concept.  

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