M.A. Thesis:

Art imagery in the Masnavi Khosrow and Shirin and Layla and Majnun military

Lyric and romantic poetry in Iranian literature has begun since the third century of the hegira, in other word the birth of “Dary” poetry and the oldest of this poetry can be found in remnant of “Badgisi, Hanzale” literature. Although era of enrichment of the lyric poetry has started in the fourth century of hegira. First pleasing Persian sonnets have been composed by “Roodaki” and his contemporaries such as “Shahid Balkhi”. At the end of sixth century, rhyme of stories were perfected by one of majors of Persian poetry, “Nezami Ganjavi”. This stories includes: “Khosro and shirin”, “Leyli and majnoon” and “Haft Peykar (“Bahram Name”, “Haft Gonbad”)”, which lead to historical and epic story of “Eskandar Name” and didactic and philosophic poetries such as “Makhzan Asrar”, “Panj Ganj” and quintuplet of “Nezami”. “Nezami” has instructed the love between the lover and beloved in such delicate expert and mastering that after decades passed from his advent and creation of a new style of poetry, they are still exquisite and novel in Persian literature and it can be said that his masterpieces has made him immortal and eventually he places the lovesick lover into the journey toward divine sight and feathers earthly love toward divine love. This thesis has been developed in four chapters. First chapter is theoretical bases of research, the second one is about biography and artworks of “Nezami”, while the third chapter concerns artful imagery of “Khsoro and Shirin” lyrics and at last, fourth chapter would be artful imagery of “Leyli and Majnoon” lyrics. In the end, a conclusion about the imagery of this two masterpiece is made.

Keywords: Lyric, Artful Imagery, “Leyli and Majnoon”, “Khsoro and Shirin”, “Nezami Ganjavi”.