Structural and Content Analysis of the Bird’s Cremation Site in Four Images of Haft Awrang Jami From the School of Painting of Mashhad

Haft Awrang Jami is one of the literary examples of using birds as symbolic and allegorical elements in stories and narratives to teach moral and ethical lessons. In stories such as Fisherman Chicken, Simple fish, chough Imitation of partridge, Rooster, Ducks, turtles, eagle and crane, one can observe such examples, which has been depicted in the 28 pictures in this collection. Only in the story of the duck and the turtle birds play the main role in the story, and in the rest, the birds have a symbolic role or are depicted in a double concept in the image. The present article is looking for concepts and meanings of the role of the bird in the images and investigates how Haft Awrang Jami paintings have been structured, to analyze how formal and aesthetic values are applied. The question regarding the bird’s presence in the Haft Awrang sketches must be answered. Considering birds are not the main topic of the stories, there are still a number of birds in the corners or parts of the graphic. The research method is descriptive and analytical and uses library resources. The purpose of this study is to understand the reasons for the extensive use of painters from the role of birds in Haft Awrang paintings. The results show that because of the fact that the stories of Haft AwrangJami have a mystical, moral and informative aspect, The bird, which symbolizes the liberation of the human spirit, has a significant presence in many of the images, and each one can express a specific concept in relation to the story.