Proving the unity of the poet of Masnavi of Mesbah al-Arwah and an anonymous Masnavi through stylistic comparison

 Mesbah al-Arwah is the name of an imaginary travelogue to another world, the composer of which is considered to be Shams al-Din Mohammad Bardsiri or Uhud al-Din Kermani. In 1966, Seyyed Zia-ud-Din Sajjadi introduced and published a 638-bit Masnavi called "Khatm al-Gharaib" attributed to Khaghani. Later, some scholars raised ambiguities about the name and author of this Masnavi and various opinions were presented. In the present research, an attempt has been made to prove that the author of this Masnavi and Masnavi Mesbah al-Arwah was one person.

 The present study is a theoretical study and has been done in a descriptive-analytical manner. In this research, based on the hypotheses, a stylistic comparison has been made between Mesbah al-Arwah and Masnavi 638 bits on three levels of thought, language and literature. The study population was the Masnavi "Mesbah al-Arwah" edited by Badi"al-e-Zaman Forouzanfar, published in "Yaman Yafakhar Kerman 2: Shams Bardsiri" and "Khatamat al-Gharib Masnavi attributed to Khaghani" by Zia-ud-Din Sajjadi, published in "Zamin" Farhang.

 By stylistic comparison between the two works, it is clear that they have similarities in the linguistic realm of the vocabulary and the syntactic construction of sentences; Among other things, the words created by the poet himself can be found in both works. Also in the literary realm, the frequency sequence of using different types of literary arrays is largely the same in both works. In the realm of thought, the key themes of the 638-bit Masnavi can be found in the themes of the Mesbah al-Arwah.

 According to the similarities found, it can be concluded that the two works are the work of one person and the linguistic and literary developments in Mesbah al-Arwah indicate that the 638-bit Masnavi is the result of inexperience, and Mesbah al-Arwah is the result of the poet"s maturity; Of course, the identity of this poet is still a matter of ambiguity, and determining whether Shams Bardsiri is the author of these two works or Ohad al-Din Kermani can be another subject of research.