Structural Comparison of Two proverbial Narratives from Masnavi and Elahi Nameh

Jalal Uddin Mohammad Maulavi, for presenting his exalted spiritual teachings, applied allegorical/proverbial narrations so that he could make deep messages and difficult Masnavi easier and identical for his audiences. For that matter, he most often looks for stories that have precedence in peoples’ minds but from the source of the story, he constructs his own narrative containing his messages. He was also intelligently impressive in narration and often employed the narrative elements, suitable with narrative capacities, in competition with modern story writing. In this research, with comparative methods, the narrative elements of two anecdotes of Masnavi and Elahinameh of Attar “requesting to Christ by his companion to make skeleton alive” have been studied with the aim to highlight strength and weakness of each of these anecdotes and to analyze the manners of utilizing elements such as plan and plot, characters, discourse, angle, stagemanagement, place and time, casting difficulties, resolving difficulties and narrative themes in the forms of comparison.