Samak-e Ayyār: A Literary Analysis

Subject Areas : Mytho

خورشید نوروزی ¹ (مربی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی ـ واحد شهرری)

Received: 2015-05-26 Accepted : 2015-05-26 Published : 2007-12-22

Keywords: story, romance, epic, Literary Genre, Samak-e Ayyār,

Abstract :

    Samak-e Ayyār is an ancient fictional story about an Iranian ayyār (a warrior who has courage and chivalry) first told orally by Sādaqa b. Abūl-Qāsim Shirāzi, then Collected and writting down by Farāmarz Ibn Khodādād Arrajāni in the 12th Century (6th Century AH). Samak-e Ayyar is described as a popular romance, while some consider it an epic. The present article tries to analyze Samak-e Ayyār by taking into account the two literary genres, romance and epic.