The Reflection of Mediaeval Social Conditions in Persian Roman Case Study: the Story of Samak  Ayyār

Literature in general and stories in particular are one of the most important reflections of human social life during history, and therefore literary texts are always one of the sources for history researches, especially for social history studies. On the other hand, writings and particularly literary texts have been one of the main spaces for introducing the human thoughts that writers have presented their ideas through them. In these vast areas of literary books, story always has a high position for analyzing of examinations and considerations of thought and also social achievements. In history of Persian literature, before the modern period and the rise of modern Persian novel, there have been some samples of stories which mainly were formed for entertainment. But at the same time, some traces of social life and folklore from the past centuries have remained in those stories that could help the present historians to find subjects such as kind of the words, the style of writings, ordinary terms, and the manner of life in the last centuries. At the present paper, the Story of ‘Samak ‘Ayyār’ has been investigated based on the mentioned viewpoints, and it has tried to find and analyze the reflection of social conditions from mediaeval centuries in this story book.