Principles of Comparative Commentary Based on Mathnavi Sharif Commentary

Different types of commentary can be classified based on the commentator and the literary text, and the audience.  One type of commentary is comparative commentary. The aim of comparative commentary is to explain and interpret a literary text based on the literature of one nation in the language of another nation. The applied method of comparative commentary has three stages. The first stage is an introduction in order to study the historical relation and linguistic differences between two literary works. The second stage is comparative commentary in order to analyze linguistic-structural and semantic-thematic indexes. The last stage is conclusion in order to study how much the source text has influenced the target text. Mathnavi Sharif Commentary written by Foroozanfar can be considered as a comparative commentary as the commentator has a comparative approach in many of verses and stories of his book.