Allegorical stories and their types in Makhzan-ul- Asrar (The treasury of secrets)

Allegory is one of the essential literary genre which has been of interest among the speakers; its essentiality is due to the fact that it is the result of thoughts and ideas which has been one in descriptive-analytic method. A variety of allegorical stories, tools and elements in Makhzan-ul- Asrar (The treasury of secrets) has been investigated. In this study, after extraction of allegories, the graph of frequencies has been drawn. As a result of this study, Makhzan-ul- Asrar, parable has widely been used as the tale allegory and Nizami has benefited the national epic, religious and historical allusions and animals to express his allegories.