چکیده:
Abstract "Simile" plays an important role in the emergence of anecdotes in the third book of Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi, and has led to the emergence of special types of allegorical anecdotes, which in this article, are referred to as "clustered and non- clustered allegorical anecdotes". These anecdotes as vehicles (object of the simile) are like a compound or broad metaphor whose starting point is placed in one or more than one verse. In the cluster allegorical type, each anecdote has a multi-core narrative and a dependent anecdote as a cluster, while in the non-cluster type, there are only one or more narrative cores and there is no anecdote as a cluster. In this context, allegory, narration, anecdote, cluster and non-cluster anecdotes are inextricably linked to simile. The present article addresses the questions found in both rhetorical and narrative domains. The questions are as follows: "How does simile relate to and affect the narrative structure of the anecdotes?" and "What classifications have similes created in the structure of the anecdotes of the third book of Masnavi?" From this perspective, the researchers have analyzed the anecdotes of the third book of Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi, scrutinizing different types of short and long allegorical anecdotes. It is found that in all anecdotes studied, simile is manifested as the main and constructive element in the vertical axis of the anecdotes
خلاصه ماشینی:
This subject begins extensively in mystical verse literature with "The Conference of the Birds" (Hadiqat al-Tawfiq), with the difference that the tales in "The Conference of the Birds," unlike the Masnavi, are not clusters, and each short tale acts like a simple tenor (mushabbah bihi) and its only purpose is to clarify a concept; whereas in the Masnavi, the interlocking layers of the tenors create various allegorical tales.
The tale of "the jackal falling into the dye vat, becoming colorful, and the jackals engaging in peacock-like boasting" is the first short cluster allegorical tale, which begins with the verse "That jackal went into the dye vat / In that vat, he paused for an hour" (Rumi, 1376, Vol. 1: 364) and serves as a comparative allegory for the subject of false claimants and their vain delusions, which were expressed in the three verses preceding it.
4. "That man's request to Moses for the language of animals and birds" (ibid: 475) is among the long allegorical tales that, in terms of diversity and changes in narrative situations, is the most unique story of non-clustered allegories.
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