Metatextualitis of Salaman and Absal

Salaman and Absal is a symbolic and allegorical story which though has root in Greek civilization but has been formed in Iranian culture. The existence of several narratives of this story in our literary history show its importance among thoughtful group of Iranian society. The potential of this symbolic story to create the profound concepts has been influenced by the creativity of several poets and writers. They have recreated it through consecutive centuries in order to comply the expectations of readers. Sheikh Al-Rayis Abu Ali Sina is the first person which has coded Salaman and Absal. Then, Fakhr Razi, Khaje Nasir toosi, Jami and Navidi have tried to decode the esoteric concepts of this narrative. With several years of effort, Khaujeh-nasir made two apparently different narratives from Salaman and Absal and aimed at finding the purpose of Abu Ali Sina in Namat nine of “Al-Isharat, Al-Tanbihat" book with the narration attributed to his master by Abu Abid Gorgani, the student of Ibn Sina. Since the study of the interpretations of a work in modern literary critique has also gained a certain place, and Gérard Genette, French contemporary researcher, has allocated part of his transtextuality as metatextuality. In this research, we tried to answer the question that can we achieve a new type of metatextuality with studying the commentaries and paraphrases of Salaman and Absal? The result of this study is the retrieval of two types of continuous and discontinuous metatextualities. This research also shows that the dominant descriptions of Salaman and Absal have been made by the influence of the philosophical thoughts of Ibn Sina.