The Study of Metamorphosi's function in Al-Sughri's Śukasaptati (Javaher Al-Asmar) Folk Legends

Metamorphosis means the alteration of shape, essence, nature, and substance of real or imaginary beings; in other words transubstantiation, transmogrification and transmutation, the other meaning of which is transformation and alteration of structure, foundation of existence and lawful identity of a person or a thing by utilizing supernatural powers.
Imad Bin Muhammad Al-Sughri is one of the writers of eighth century and of Sultan Aladdin Khalaji’s amanuenses. His book, “Javaher Al-Asmar”, is a lyric legend which is written in allegorical language and a simple prose and contains novelty and bon mots of its own. The main content of this book is “women’s slyness”. Narrator of the story, “Tooti” (means Parrot), relates one hundred stories in fifty and two nights.
Javaher Al-Asmar and its numerous and exuberant legends has of structure and subject, attributes, and the purpose of composition of this study, in research theoretical frame, is to strive to explore and illustrate the most important types of metamorphosis, with descriptive-analytical and unfailing approach, in the relation of Javaher Al-Asmar’s legends. In a glance we can say that most metamorphoses were in transubstantiation of inanimates to animate beings.