“A Kind Person Was in My House” Ferdowsi's Beardless kind man or woman? Gender-based reading of Bijan and Manijeh's Introduction in Al-Shahnameh

The author of the present article applies the "cultural turn" approach in translation studies to find out why Qavam Al-Din Bundari, in the seventh century AH, when translating the phrase: "      " From Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, chose equivalent of the word " " as " "? Because the text of Shahnameh is devoid of signs that clarify the gender of " ", so there is a hypertextual reason for thinking this word as masculine. An analysis of desire pattern and sexual mechanism in the age of the translator, also its before and after, show that the male actor / subject has in mind in his sexual act, at the same time, two active / objects: (non) masculine and feminine actionable. In other words, unlike the contemporary sexual desire pattern, based on heterosexuality and the male-female duality,in that period in addition to mentioned duality, the dual presence of male- (non) male is also evident in sexual behavior. A search of written and non-written works, such as surviving drawings from predecessors, reveals that the (non) masculine object includes: beardless boy, effeminate man, sodomy and non-testicle. Due to the actions attributed to " " in the text of Shahnameh, Bondary chooses " " as the equivalent of " " among these interpretation. Thus this selection is rooted in the pattern of sexual desire of the source community, not the equivalence of two words in the source and target languages.