A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THOMAS MOORE S UTOPIA AND NIZAMI S CITY OF THE EXCELENT ONES

Forming an idealistic society has been a concern for humanity since ancient times. “A Truly Golden Little Book” by Thomas Moore could be pointed out as an example for this claim. This book which is one of the most famous western examples for a dream city the writer tries to create and depict the details of his favorite world. On the other hand one of the eastern dream cities is the “city of the excellent ones” described by Nizami to depict his dream city. The writer of the present article tries to compare these two dream cities to shoe the differences between eastern and western dream cities as well as their similarities.