Humor Tips in Attar's Asrarnameh

Attar is one of the poets that used humor to criticize politics and Social inequality in his era. He used allegory and critical reviews to describe the injustice and social informality. Humor is one of the form of speaking in which aims to refine and purify. The poet or the writer creates humor in order to refine in various ways. Creating humorous conditions, Crazy and simple-minded characters, lingual combinations, invalid argument of introduction, unexpected answer, similarity to animals, destroying Symbols, paradoxes and … are among humorous factors in Asrarnameh. Studying humorous styles in Asrarnameh show that Attar has used various linguistic and semantic deviations in text in order to surprise and defamiliarize reader. In most stories of Asrarnameh, creation of humor tips is come from a mutual dialogue and less action is seen. Narrativization is one of the most common methods of reasoning in Educational and mystical texts which Attar gets help from to describe stories according to characteristics and goals, mocking public ignorance and superstitions and criticize demagogic and hypocritical behavior of the government. Here we study the humor tips in Asrarnameh.