Intertextuality in the critical proofreading of the manuscripts of mystical interpretations of Surah Yusuf case study: Bahr al-Mahabbah fi Asrar al-Mawaddah

The concept of intertextuality has a great function in understanding and criticizing mystical texts as well as Proofreading manuscripts. In particular, If the many connections between the mystical interpretations of Surah Yusuf in the interpretations of the middle centuries are understood, it will have a great impact on correct reading and solving some problems of Proofreading these texts. The existence of a network of earlier and later intertextual relationships in these works, Including the qesse- ye- Joseph, Anis al-Muridin and Rawzah al-Mohebeen, Anis al-Muridin and Shams al-Majalis, Hadaiq al-Haqaiq, as well as Bahr al-Mahabbah fi Asrar al-Mawddah is very strong. So that the effort to understand the meaning in each one with the assumption of independence does not lead to the right result. This article, using the method of content analysis, with the aim of emphasizing the perspective of intertextuality in Proofreading the mystical interpretations of Surah Yusuf, seeks to show how the Manuscript proofreader will be able to understand the text by considering this point of view; so that he can achieve the main goal of proofreading, which is to achieve a text as close as possible to the author's work. In Proofreading Bahr al-Mahabbah as a case study, a comparative study of specific interpretations of Surah Yusuf and understanding the relationship between them led to solving some difficulties. Some if the examples are: Choosing the names of some characters in the story, such as the names of Yusuf's sister and Zulikha and her rival,