The image of Iranian culture and civilization in Abu Dolf's travelogue

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor of Boali Sina University, Hamadan

2 Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan

10.22103/jic.2024.23296.1317

Abstract

Illustration refers to a relatively new approach in comparative literature that studies the extracurricular "other" image in national literature or the study of the image of an "I" in another literature. Travelogues as a document of historical and social value are among the most important and valuable sources in illustration and have had a special place in the literature of each era and reflect the life, culture since ancient times as one of the important literary types. Nature is the attraction of different nations from the point of view of the author of that travelogue. Iran's attractions include natural attractions, man-made attractions, and cultural and historical attractions. One of the travelogues that describe the attractions of parts of Iran in the fourth century AH is the travelogue of Abu Dulaf. In this travelogue, the regions and works of Iran are depicted by Abu Dulaf. The results showed that the image of springs, mines, flowers, fruits and mountains as Iran's natural attractions in the Abu Dulaf travelogue of further feedback and cultural and historical attractions and man-made attractions are in the next stages and readers Iranian and Arabic study of the travelogue, which was the result of Abu Delf's observations and acquaintance with the attractions of Iran, are encouraged to see them more than before. The research method of this research is descriptive-historical and the author relies on historical documents to represent the attractions of Iran in the mentioned travelogue.The results showed that the image of springs, attractions of Iran .

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