Mythical Figures in Poems of Jalaluddin Moulavi

Mythical and epical figures continue to live in the religious, cosmological, mythical as well as lingual and literary memory and native perceptions in Iran despite the destructive and anti-civilizational domineering attempts which some times pushed the Iranian society to brink of disintegration. These figures have been intermingled with the new Iranian-Islamic elements and in some cases they have given their own coat to these new elements. A large number of historical, philosophical and literary works of the predecessors underline the persistence of these ancient elements in our historical-cultural and lingual identity.
The presence of these elements in the poems of Moulavi underline a fateful cultural-literary and identity-oriented resurrection which began for the first time with the composition of versified and prosaic Shahnamehs and the revival of the Persian literature (particularly from the time of the Samanid dynasty to the era of Ale-Buyid). They indeed consolidate the establishment of the foundations of nationality and continuation of the sense of patriotism and then spread to the arena of gnostic literature, including the poems of Moulavi. Among the manifestations of this cultural-literary resurrection in the works of Moulana one may mention the presence of mythical and epical figures of the ancient poetry like Jam, Keikhosrow, Fereidoun, Rostam Dastan, Eskandar, Khosrow and Shirin, Farhad and Shirin, and Veis and Ramin.