Intertextuality in the Attar’s “Ilahi nameh” with Sixth Century Mystics

Intertextuality theory is one of the new approaches to reading and criticizing texts. This theory first draws from Ferdinand Saussure's semiotics and examines the relationships between the texts. Because in every text there are references to earlier works; In other words, new texts are the product of pre-existing texts. Gérard Genette has consummated the theory of intertextuality. Genette divides intertextuality into three categories, which can be examined in the form of: Explicit and announced presence, hidden, not explicit or implicit presence of one text in another. In this article, the “Ilahi nameh”'s anecdotes are first classified according to this theory, Then the earlier text of the anecdotes is found in the works of the sixth century, After that, the intertextual reading of anecdotes is presented based on the theory of genetics intertextuality in these three areas, along with examples, practical analysis of similarities and differences in terms of volume, characters, goals of the two authors and rhetorical points between the anecdotes. According to this study, eighteen intertextual “Ilahi nameh”'s relate to sixth-century works. In these three modules, there are 14 cases of explicit intertextuality, of which twelve are "Aqd" and one is "Eqtebās". There were also four cases of intentional-hidden intertextuality and one case of implicit intentionality.