A Study of the Sources of Traditions Used in Golshan-e Rāz by Sheikh Mahmoud Shabestari Based on Dezfoulian's Edition

One thousand and one nights is a multi-national book which has been written during the consecutive years and has experienced several languages and cultures. It enjoys a particular status among its hometown communities and even among the western countries. Narrators and storytellers of this story either intentionally or unintentionally, have chosen the characters’ names of the story in a way that absolutely coordinates with their actions and personalities. Hence, the women’s naming, in a book which has been compiled through the effective presence of women and has been strongly connected with a mysterious and symbolic universe, is considered extremely important and worthy. The study of the names, in this book, extends our knowledge of the book and reveals the women’s identity during their lost history. This study is an attempt to examine and present the women’s names and their descriptive worthiness through one thousand and one nights based on a feminine approach and considering the women’s social class. The statistical group of this study consists of the anecdotes of one thousand and one nights; the first volume of it has been translated by Abd-Al-Latif Tasooji and published by Hermes publications. The results indicate that the women’s naming in this book has a particular status. It also phonetically, semantically, and symbolically has an inseparable and meaningful connection with their personality and actions. Several examples of different methods that narrators have adopted for naming confirm this idea.