The Identity of Human Being in Panj Ganj of Nezami Ganjavi

This research is a content analysis study which investigates the view of Nezami about individual, social and ideal identity in Panj Ganj. Nezami is an idealist thinker who uses poetry for releasing mankind from dystopia and reaching utopia. As a mirror reflecting his character, Nezami in Panj Ganj pays attention to different aspects of human essence beside the rapture of love and abnegation. In the image of his tales’ protagonists, he creates the identity of an ideal Man and refuses to represent realistically the identity characteristics of his protagonists and, instead, creates a number of typical characters whose process of reaching Perfection is completed at each moment through ideal foregrounding. Indeed, each of his protagonists offers a new model for human beings in order that they learn a lesson and reach Perfection via the process of self-promotion. Besides representing the individual identity of human being, he also represents his social and ideal (divine) identity. In Panj Ganj, the Perfect Man has sometimes religious identity, is a sage in some tales and in other cases he is a lover whose earthly love becomes more transcendental so that bestows him the mystical identity.