Specifying & Confirming the Opinions of Zarrinkub on the story Shah and Kanizak

The researchers of Mathnavi have considered the first tale of this work named âKanizak va Padeshahâ as a symbolic tale and each of them has decoded it according to his particular view. They all agree upon decoding three characters of this tale. The main dispute is over decoding the king and maid cha...

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Main Author: m Hasani Jalilian
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Published: University of Isfahan 2014-05-01
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Online Access:http://rpll.ui.ac.ir/article_19385_9902a6914bb0c9d589fe7b20d517354d.pdf
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description The researchers of Mathnavi have considered the first tale of this work named âKanizak va Padeshahâ as a symbolic tale and each of them has decoded it according to his particular view. They all agree upon decoding three characters of this tale. The main dispute is over decoding the king and maid characters. Seemingly following the Kharazmi commentary, most commentators assume king as the symbol of soul and maid as the symbol of the self. In the works of Dr Zarinkoub, maid and king symbolize human being and God respectively. But some scholars believe that kingâs taking shelter in the mosque and confessing to his fault is discordant with considering him as the symbol of God. Thus, there seems to be more propensity to Kharazmiâs view. After criticizing other views, this research tries to explain the view of Zarinkoub by focusing on the motif of the story and Molaviâs manner of fictionalization. It is assumed that the motif of this tale is the fault of human (maid) in knowing the true beloved (king) and choosing an unstable beloved named the world (goldsmith). There are two groups of factors which confirm this hypothesis: the factors outside the tale which include the theme of the main source of the tale, the record of such theme in gnostic texts, the presence of this theme in the works of early mystics like Attar and the repetition of such theme in other tales of Mathnavi. The factors inside the tale are: the prologue of the tale and final verse, the dilemma of the tale and its pivotal character, the denouement and conclusion by Molavi at the end of the tale.
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spelling doaj.art-330cc019a7c04817b9e083f2694da25b2023-09-02T06:27:07ZfasUniversity of Isfahanمتن شناسی ادب فارسی2008-54862476-32682014-05-01618911019385Specifying & Confirming the Opinions of Zarrinkub on the story Shah and Kanizakm Hasani Jalilian0Lorestan UniversityThe researchers of Mathnavi have considered the first tale of this work named âKanizak va Padeshahâ as a symbolic tale and each of them has decoded it according to his particular view. They all agree upon decoding three characters of this tale. The main dispute is over decoding the king and maid characters. Seemingly following the Kharazmi commentary, most commentators assume king as the symbol of soul and maid as the symbol of the self. In the works of Dr Zarinkoub, maid and king symbolize human being and God respectively. But some scholars believe that kingâs taking shelter in the mosque and confessing to his fault is discordant with considering him as the symbol of God. Thus, there seems to be more propensity to Kharazmiâs view. After criticizing other views, this research tries to explain the view of Zarinkoub by focusing on the motif of the story and Molaviâs manner of fictionalization. It is assumed that the motif of this tale is the fault of human (maid) in knowing the true beloved (king) and choosing an unstable beloved named the world (goldsmith). There are two groups of factors which confirm this hypothesis: the factors outside the tale which include the theme of the main source of the tale, the record of such theme in gnostic texts, the presence of this theme in the works of early mystics like Attar and the repetition of such theme in other tales of Mathnavi. The factors inside the tale are: the prologue of the tale and final verse, the dilemma of the tale and its pivotal character, the denouement and conclusion by Molavi at the end of the tale.http://rpll.ui.ac.ir/article_19385_9902a6914bb0c9d589fe7b20d517354d.pdfMolaviMathnavithe tale of maid and kingsymbolization
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Specifying & Confirming the Opinions of Zarrinkub on the story Shah and Kanizak
متن شناسی ادب فارسی
Molavi
Mathnavi
the tale of maid and king
symbolization
title Specifying & Confirming the Opinions of Zarrinkub on the story Shah and Kanizak
title_full Specifying & Confirming the Opinions of Zarrinkub on the story Shah and Kanizak
title_fullStr Specifying & Confirming the Opinions of Zarrinkub on the story Shah and Kanizak
title_full_unstemmed Specifying & Confirming the Opinions of Zarrinkub on the story Shah and Kanizak
title_short Specifying & Confirming the Opinions of Zarrinkub on the story Shah and Kanizak
title_sort specifying confirming the opinions of zarrinkub on the story shah and kanizak
topic Molavi
Mathnavi
the tale of maid and king
symbolization
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