Changing the Mystical Themes of Azar Yazdi's Stories

Mehdi Azaryazdi is amongst the precedents in rewriting the classic stories for youths and children. He recreated the book “Nice Stories for Nice Children” in eight volumes since 1957 until 1990. His main aims were to transfer the ethical messages to the young readers as well as familiarizing them with the valuable treasure of Persian literature. Hence he has apparently recreated the main theme of the stories into an ethical theme. Therefore, the mystical stories of Molavi and Attar have so much changed that there does not exist any common aspect between them and the final work of Azaryazdi. This paper investigates the themes of “Molavi’s Stories” and “Attar Stories” and compares them with the rewritings of Azar yazdi. It is declared how much Azaryazdi has changed the themes of the stories. As Azaryazdi has definitely changed the themes of these stories to social, ethical and sometimes to historical and royal themes. As a comparative analysis, while just only %19.6 of the original resources of Azaryazdi’s rewritings come with the ethical theme, this theme, in Azaryazdi’s works, appears over %60.2; where the original resources are mainly (%62.5) covered by mystical theme. By such a rewriting, there is no doubt thatAzaryazdi has clearly recreated completely new stories from the sense of the classic stories.