The Visage of Woman in Tazkerat-al-owlia of Attar

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Estahan

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Esfahan

Abstract

The book Tazkerat-al-owliii is a prose literary text compiled by Sheikh Farideddin Mohammand Attar Neyshiibiiri which appears in biography of some of the Gnostics. There is a lot of information about Gnostic personality figures characteristics in this book. It is in such biographies that the role and effect of Women is seen. A careful study of Tazkerat-al-owliii, reveals the visage of women in the forms of mother, wife, sweetheart, Gnostic. The book contains some points about sister or Gnostics' daughter and also old women and slave-girls. The present article analyzes and studies women's visage in these forms providing sample from the Tazkerat-al-owliii text.

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