A Comparative Study of Majnun Image Story Among Wild Beasts of Shah Tahmasp's Khamseh (Five Persian books) with Textile Image Recorded in Boston Museum, Registration number: 1928.2, based on Intertextuality Theory

Story of Layla and Majnun is one of most famous literary works which has attracted all artists and made enrich their works. due to a solidarity of literature with painting, painters among these artists, revived a process of making illustrated works, which were surely transfer of poets thinking. In this regard, the literature of Shahnameh and Khamseh has a special position. Considering influence of the Safavid painters in royal workshops and effect of painting on other arts fields, including weaving, it is possible to find effects of literature on motifs of these woven fabrics.
A main purpose of this paper is to identify and study common points of literature with images and motifs of this story on textiles in Safavid era and to identify a relationship between painters and textile designers.
findings of this paper show that themes of lyric poetry are reflected in motifs of textiles and images. Because these stories have been cultural commonalities, and painters in this period have been fabric designers too, considering a comparison of Nizami poem in painting and textile-weaving.