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

Intertextuality theory is one of the new approaches to reading and criticizing texts. This theory first draws from Ferdinand Saussurechr(chr('39')39chr('39'))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 “Mousibat nameh”chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))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 between the anecdotes. According to this study, ten intertextual “Mousibat nameh”chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))s relate to sixth-century works. In these two modules, there are five cases of explicit intertextuality, of which two are “Aqd” and two is “Eqtebās” and one is “Translation”. There were also five cases of intentional-hidden intertextuality.