Iranian Persian Language and Literature Promotion Society Research on Mystical Literature HTTPS://JP 5 3 2011 11 22 Comparative Study of the Stories of Yaghoub (PBUH) and Feridoun and Their Sons Comparative Study of the Stories of Yaghoub (PBUH) and Feridoun and Their Sons 99 124 16396 FA Mohammad Mahdipour Associate Professor of Persian language and literature, University of Tabriz. Journal Article 2016 06 14 Analyzing the stories in the religious texts such as Holy Quran, and Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh which is an Iranian national epic, we encounter characters which share huge commonalities in terms of their daily conducts and life styles. These commonalties are initiated from a common source, then divert due to their circulation within individual nations, and in turn influence their beliefs and ideas, and are consequently localized and nationalized. Another interpretation about these commonalities is the principle which endorses the recurrence of historical events. In this study, the stories of Yaghoub (PBUH) and his sons based on Surah Yousof in the Holy Quran, on the one hand, and Feridoun and his sons based on Shahnameh, on the other, have been investigated. It appears that they have potentially common grounds for any contrastive study. Author believes that these two stories have not affected each other and this research does not seek an analogy between myth and revelation, because myth in contrast to revelation is similar to imagination as opposed to certainty. This work simply tries to study and represent similarities and differences of written and famous version of these two stories. The analysis of these two stories was done by studying 15 factors including 9 comparative, and 6 contrastive features. Analyzing the stories in the religious texts such as Holy Quran, and Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh which is an Iranian national epic, we encounter characters which share huge commonalities in terms of their daily conducts and life styles. These commonalties are initiated from a common source, then divert due to their circulation within individual nations, and in turn influence their beliefs and ideas, and are consequently localized and nationalized. Another interpretation about these commonalities is the principle which endorses the recurrence of historical events. In this study, the stories of Yaghoub (PBUH) and his sons based on Surah Yousof in the Holy Quran, on the one hand, and Feridoun and his sons based on Shahnameh, on the other, have been investigated. It appears that they have potentially common grounds for any contrastive study. Author believes that these two stories have not affected each other and this research does not seek an analogy between myth and revelation, because myth in contrast to revelation is similar to imagination as opposed to certainty. This work simply tries to study and represent similarities and differences of written and famous version of these two stories. The analysis of these two stories was done by studying 15 factors including 9 comparative, and 6 contrastive features. https://jpll.ui.ac.ir/article_16396_ff171a6e21df0e146268656a7990ec5e.pdf