Compare this famous story of Salaman and Absal

Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts

Sakineh Najjarian ¹

1 - - Master of Persian Language and Literature

Received: 2019-05-04 Accepted : 2019-05-04 Published : 2012-05-21

Keywords: تمثیل, جامی, Jami, سلامان و ابسال, Allegory, حنین بن اسحاق, Salaman and Absal, Honayn-ebn-Eshagh,

Abstract :

One of  the  allegory  stories  of  Persian  literature  is  salaman  and  absal which  is originated  from Greek mythology. In the Persian  literature,  there  are  different  narratives  about  this  story among  them,  Honayn-ebn-Eshagh’s  narrative (third  century) and  jami’s narrative (ninth century) are more similar to each other, it  shows, that  jami  in this story has used  Honayn-Ebn-Eshagh’s narrative and  has  had some  modifications  to  approach  it  to  Islamic- Iranian  culture. Jami’s  attentuion  to Eskandar, Eskandar’s  wisdom  and  Greek  culture has  made  this  story  to  promote   after 6 centuries – from  Honayn- ebnEshagh’stranslation to Jami’sera.