A Comparative Study of Alice Through the Looking Glass and Matiq al-Tayr

This article seeks to compare and analyze si murgh (30 birds) and Simurgh (phoenix)، heroes of Attar Matiq al-Tayr’s allegorical stories، with Alice Through the Looking Glass in order to give a new reading of Simurgh and si murgh in Matiq al-Tayr. Despite differences in the details of the story، they are based on the same principles. There are similar motifs like mirror and dreams in these two stories which in Matiq al-Tayr lead to understanding and intuition of Attar of a reality beyond time and place experienced by the mystic. Thus it seems that each of the thirty birds of Matiq al-Tayr can be considered as living in the parallel world of a dream just as Kaku refers to Alice Through the Looking Glass in order to define parallel worlds in physics.