The Textual Criticism of the Narrative Nuh Manzar and Some its Motives

Nuh Manzar is one of the lesser-known educational narratives and the only parody of Nizami’s Haft Peykar in Persian literature that was kept unedited and unpublished till recently. The present article attempts to criticize the fictional motives of Nuh Manzar and propose a rather comprehensive description of its characteristics.  This research is basically in two parts. In the first section, the origin, time and place of the compilation, the narrator, reasons for its title, the subject and theme, the style, the expression, and the literary genre are identified. In the second part, for the qualitative analysis of the subject, the main motives of Nuh Manzar are criticized in three parts: influence of Shahnameh, Ayyari, and lyric motives