Morphology of Narrator in Mystical Generosity

The story of generosity is the tale of narratives that represents the extraordinary acts of religious leaders. A large volume of Sufi zikrs dedicates to some tales about religious leaders’ generosity. These narratives have special status in mystical literature and own all the characteristics of a decent narration including structure. Structuralism is an analysis that deals with the structure and internal relationship of the elements of a literary or artistic work. One area of structuralism literary analysis is narratology. Narratology tries to discover language and hidden rules of narratives. A principle that structuralist narratologists deal with is morphology of narrator. Who is this narrative? How does he narrate? From what perspective does he tell the story? In addition, the like. This paper endeavors to use descriptive and analytic methods of structuralism to distinguish the morphology of the narrators in tales of generosity as follows: Khajeh Abdullah Ansari’s Tabaghatal Sufiah (4 and 5 AH), Mohammd Ibn Monavvar’s Asrarultowhid (4 and 5 AH). Attar Neishabouri’s Tazkaratul Owlia (6 and 7 AH), Jami’s Nafahatul Ons (9 AH), and Masoum Ali Shah’s Taraeghul Haghayegh (13 and 14 AH). This study is conducted according to the theories of structuralist narratologists and the approach toward mystical literature. The research shows that in mystical generosities narratives, the narrator is someone distinct and different from the author. He can knowingly or unknowingly have the general knowledge, finite or infinite, internal or external vision, though his narrations are direct and have timing, attributes and color of a character in story.