Abstract

Hadiqat ol-Haqiqah va Shariat ol-Tariqah is one of the outstanding and most influential educational-mystic mathnavis in Persian literature which belongs to Abolmajd Majdud Ibn Adam Sana’i Ghaznavi (6th century AH). The book starts with a long introduction in prose and is divided in ten chapters comprising 10000 lines of poetry in some manuscripts. In order to express his ideas which are mostly complex and long mystical views, he has used allegorical story telling. All together there are 112 stories (hekayat) which are included in the body of the text and they have titles such as “story of…”, “the tale of …”, and “al-tamseel fi…”. They have varied lengths and play an important role in making the text easier to be understood. The characters in these stories are divided into five categories of religious-mystical, historical-mythical, clichés, symbolic-allegorical, and hamraz. The findings are then shown in a few charts.