Conversations in the story of Caliph and Arabi in three versions of Mathnavi, Mosibatnameh and Javameol Hekayat

The conversation of people in a story is on of techniques in characterization. Characters come into existence by speaking. Every person shows her/his social class, education, knowledge and etc through conversation. The ability of creating characters through dialogues is not an easy task especially if the literary work to be in the form of poetry. In this article the story of "the caliph who was more generous than Hatam Taee" is analyzed from content point of view to show the power of conversation in creating an artistic piece of literary work. This story is written by Mollavi and it is based on Attar's Mosibat Nameh and Aufi's Javameol Al Hekayat. This comparison has been carried out to show the supervisory of Mollavi in creating true characters out of conversations. Mollavi with a great talent depict the Morales of social class, their thoughts and feeling. Moreover through lengthy dialogues he has achieved his goal namely creating an artistic literary work.