Tales and Anecdotes of Mathnavi according to the Deconstructive Reading of Mowlavi

Mathnavi is a rule-rejecting and deconstructive text that destroys the accepted presuppositions of its readers about language, form, meaning and narrative of the text. The first impressive point about the tales is their innovative structures. The present article, after a brief review of the literary deconstruction, on the basis of the original version of tales and anecdotes and by disregarding the digressions and detachments of the narrator, investigates the deconstructive reading of tales by Mowlavi, trying to search for the additions and omissions of the poet in four selected tales in order to draw out the principles of his reading. In the world view of Mowlavi, all things and objects find their final meaning in relation to The Spiritual and The Creator, and at the same time they reveal all the explicit and implicit elements and concepts such as movement, collapse of absolutes and possibility of impossible, which are the sources of different readings of the tales as well as the reason for their dynamic and generative character.