Psycho – Sociological Analysis of Jawāmi ul-Hikāyāt wa Lawāmi’ ul-Riwāyāt by Aufi

By adopting a multidimensional research methodology, this research tries to analyze literary, artistic and psycho – sociological aspect of Jawāmi ul-Hikāyāt wa Lawāmi’ ul-Riwāyāt ‘s stories by Aufi, the 7th centuries writer. This multidimensional approach to the analysis originates from realistic aspects and great extent of literary themes of this collection which prepares the valuable and unique source of research on Old Persian literature. To this end, at first , the authors have investigated in multidisciplinary way of discourse ,the cognitive, affective, aesthetic and phenomenological characteristics of these stories and then they have analyzed and explained these features in comparison with women and men persuasive competence socially and psychologically . According to results, even in the case of women’s praise, low rank attitude toward women and psychological-social dependence of women in comparison with men is obvious. These attributes have been expressed in the form of deterministic pietism and man-centered, austerity, altruistic discretion and denial of passions and affections.