حسن حیدرزاده سردرود

Ibn al-Jawzi, a Hanbali historian and orator who died about ten years before Rumi's birth, is one of the most prolific writers of Arabic literature. His most famous mystical work, Sifat ol-Safwa, which is a biography of mystics, is considered to be a selection of Helyat al-Awliyā’ by Abu Na’im Isfahani. In this book, Ibn al-Jawzi has collected the biographies of Sufis whose deeds and words had been found in accordance with the Prophet and Companions tradition, and has narrated anecdotes that express this character and method. Although Rumi and Ibn al-Jawzi are different and sometimes contradictory in religion, thought and way of life, there are several anecdotes in Rumi's Masnawi that are quite similar to Ibn al-Jawzi's narration in Sifat ol-Safwa. This resemblance is sometimes so great that even the words of Rumi are the same as those of Ibn al-Jawzi and sometimes a word-for-word translation of Arabic words and phrases of Sifat ol-Safwa narration.In present article, the author intends to present and analyze some very similar anecdotes of Masnawi and Sifat ol-Safwa in the hope that a further step would be taken towards a comprehensive bibliography of Masnawi’s anecdotes and another aspect of Rumi's life would be clarified. Also, the findings of this article can be the subject of research by other professors and researchers of literature and literary criticism in such fields as comparative literature, intertextuality, narrative science, etc.

Nasir Khusraw is one of the great and influential figures in the history, culture, and literature of Iran. But because of his political and ideological activity in the dominant religion, some have sometimes deliberately ignored him, and beyond that, some have sometimes insulted him the worst. Nevertheless, the Iranian literary friend taste has always praised the eloquence of his poems, regardless of the religion of the poet, and some of those poems have been remembered and preserved over the centuries. This article intends to examine and analyze the extent and manner of his presence in the long-term written memory of Iranians by collecting any mention of Nasir Khusraw's name from the time after his life until the year 1000 AH. This research has been done by a descriptive-analytical method. According to the findings of this study, there are three different approaches to Nasir Khusraw in the texts: he is often referred to as ugly in the Islamic sectology texts. In some texts, regardless of ideological point of view, his poems are praised and his life is discussed, and the approach of some texts to his character is more mythical than real. The hostile mention of Nasir Khusraw's name has diminished since the military and propaganda activities of the Ismaili sect declined, and Nasir Khusrow's image has changed from a religious preacher to a Sufi that has miracles.

The book of Sharafat al-Ensan is a mystical-fiction book whose main story is about animals complaining about human abuse to the king of jinns called "King Dadbakhsh". This book was written by Mohammad Ali Ibn Iskandar Shirvani in 1250 AH and dedicated to Mohammad Shah Qajar. The main story is rooted in the treatises of Ikhwan al-Safa, and in addition to the narration of this book, several other narrations have been known and published in Persian language. Our aim in this research is to introduce this manuscript and its author and its stylistic coordinates and distinguish it from other narrations. The research method is descriptive-analytical and its information is extracted from library sources. The research findings show that the main difference of Shirvani narration is to giving mystical color on the story by the dialogues of characters. In this narration, the reason for human's nobility over other animals is considered to be his divine spirit and ability to knowledge of God. Other distinguishing features include the abundance of references to Persian, Arabic, Quranic, and narrative verses and proverbs, as well as the use of artificial and obligatory style in general. A copy of the book contains nineteen miniature drawings that enhance its visual value, and printing the book will reduce the risk of extinction. Two manuscripts of this book have been identified so far: the original, which is in the library of the Academy of Bucharest, Romania, and the other, which is kept in the Malik Library of Tehran.

The story of "The Animals Lawsuit against Humanity", the oldest version of which is found in the Arabic Epistles oF Ikhwana al-Safa, has received more attention from Persian (and Turkish) writers in the two periods of the eighth and thirteenth centuries. In these two periods, twelve translations and adaptations of this story have been identified, which this study seeks to introduce and discover genealogy and the relationship between them in general. Based on the findings of this study, there are three main streams and one sub-stream (eclectic) in these translations and adaptations: the main stream maintains the structure of the Arabic narrative (plot, time and place, characters and trajectory of the story) and fundamental changes has not given. The intrusions and occupations of this steam have been mainly the change of its writing style from the sent prose to the artificial prose. The second stream summarizes the story; and the third stream, which begins with the initiative of Mir Hosseini Heravi, makes fundamental changes in the narrative and presents a story with a different structure, trajectory, and plot. In this process, although the main themes of the conversations and some characters are preserved, the plot and trajectory of the story are reproduced in the light of mystical discourse. The manifestation of the influence of mystical discourse is in adding the theme of "travel" and "Pir" and setting up seven courts in seven days, as well as the topics of conversation.