Dāstān’hā-yi tams̱īlī–ramzī-i Fārsī: bi hamrāh-i muqaddamah, gulchīn-i qiṣṣah’hā va taḥlīl-i namūnah’hā

Dāstān’hā-yi tams̱īlī--ramzī-i Fārsī combines literary history, critical terminology and an anthology to map allegorical and symbolic storytelling across Persian literature. Muḥammad Pārsānasab distinguishes related narrative forms, including fable, parable, dream vision and extended symbolic tale, and explains how each guides a reader from the literal story towards ethical, mystical, social or political meaning. The selected texts range across verse and prose and are arranged to show the durability and formal variety of indirect narration. Individual examples are accompanied by analysis that identifies narrative structure, recurrent symbols, interpretative possibilities and the relation between a story's surface and its implied argument. By joining theoretical discussion to representative readings, the volume supports both systematic study and close engagement with Persian texts, while demonstrating how allegory changes as authors, genres and historical circumstances change.