A Second View on Recognizing the Sources of Arabic Aphorisms in Dehkhoda's Amthal va Hekam

Some years ago, my article “A View on Recognizing the Sources of Arabic Aphorisms in Dehkhoda’s Amthal va Hekam” spoke of thirty Arabic aphorisms pertaining to the pre-Islamic Iranian sages, as attested by the men of letters and expertise, while Ali Akbar-e Dehkhoda did not mention their Iranian origins in his book Amthal va Hekam, despite his love for Iran. Today, after some years, I intend to introduce sixteen more examples of these Persian aphorisms, but with a wider view, to distinguish their Iranian identities neglected by Dehkhoda, and to depict their impacts on the Persian and Arabic literatures. Also, following a criticism on some studies connected with the influence of Arabic literature on Persian literature, the article shows that this minute fact remains neglected by many of our literary men and scholars, while the richness of Iranian culture is at a level that besides Arabic aphorisms and poems, we can use the sources attributed to ancient Iran, to interpret and explain many Persian and Arabic aphorisms.