Nima's Recreation of " Kerme Shabtab" Tale of Kelile va Demne in " Mahtab

Recreating stories, myths, events and, in general, all the ancient prose and verse works is of great value and importance. Recreating helps the artist to create a brand new work using his power of imagination while he gets the inspiration from the ancient work. And on the basis of his interests, attitudes and purposes he changes the genre of any topic. However, these recreations are not always apparent.Resorting to a comparative study of two totally different literary works, the present article seeks to answer the question whether Nima Youshij’s poem under the title of “Mahtab” is the recreation of the allegoric anecdote from Kelile va Demne, namely “Shabtab”. Undoubtedly, one of Nima’s thought sources was his attention to ancient Persian literature. He has mostly taken the essence of his contents from the ancient Persian literary works. But those ancient thoughts and ideas have been dressed newly and have changed their inner and outer figure after being processed in the creative mind of a thoughtful creator like Nima. Due to a large number of similarities between these two literary works, including their characters, dialogues, manners, events, time, space and other features, one can come to such a conclusion that Nima’s “Mahtab” has doubtlessly been influenced by “Shabtab” in Kelile va Demne, i.e. Nima’s “Mahtab” is the recreation of “Shabtab”.