Intertextuality of the Quranic Verses and Hadiths in Ghazaliyat-e Shams

One of the novel approaches to reading and criticizing texts is a focus on intertextuality views and intertextual relations. Intertextuality refers to the informed application of a total text or part of it to another text. Influenced by the earlier or contemporary works, every work undergoes changes and adopts a new identity. Hence, every text has different meanings and semantic layers, part of which is based on its relation to other texts. The Quranic verses and hadiths have an intertextual relation with Ghazaliyat-e Shams. Dealing with the indicators and features of the four components of intertextuality, namely citation, reference, plagiarism, and allusion based on the descriptive-analytic method, this paper explores the intertextual relations between Ghazaliyat-e Shams and the Quran and hadith. The results of this research work reveal that the components citation and allusion have the highest frequency in Ghazaliyat-e Shams, and there is no deliberate, hidden intertextuality equivalent to plagiarism in this work.