Advances in Language and Literary Studies ISSN: 2203-4714 www.alls.aiac.org.au Comparative Comparison Between The Characters of Jamie’s Tale of (Salamon & Absal) and Avicenna ’s Hayy Ebn Yaqzan and Andalusian Ebn Tofeyl’s Hayy Ebn Yaqazan Mehdi Ebrahimi Hossein Ali Kennedy1*, Ali Asghar Halabi2 1Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran 2Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran Corresponding Author: Mehdi Ebrahimi Hossein Ali Kennedy, E-mail:
[email protected] ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history Brilliant models of allegory and secretive tales are observable in mystical and philosophical Received: January 28, 2017 works of Persian literature in verse and prose. Avicenna is the first person who has written Accepted: August 19, 2017 the philosophical tale of Hayy Ebn Yaqzan in mystical clothing and symbolic style. In this Published: August 31, 2017 philosophical and symbolic epistle, Avicenna has represented evolution stages of human in request of hidden secrets and sublime insight and spiritual life, and in travers of behavior stages Volume: 8 Issue: 4 he became aware of the truth that there is a spiritual life other than corporeal life. Therefore Advance access: August 2017 he is guided to spiritual world by sense and by the help of active wisdom. Then Andalusian Ebn Tofeyl has combined Avicenna ’s tales of Hayy Ebn Yaqzan and Salamon & Absal and Conflicts of interest: None recompiled it in a symbolic form and wrote it out with philosophical array. In this tale Hayy Ebn Funding: None Yaqzan was grown alone in an island and he was attracted by comprehension and perception of the reality by external senses, recognition of palpable worlds and by discovery.