Study of love in Masnavi of Jamal and Jalal

ABSTRACT: One of the Persian love versified stories, is has been left unconsidered by many scholars, is Masnavi of Jamal and Jalal, written by Mohammad Nazlabadi (ninth century AH). This versified story is unique in terms of having several motifs, especially its love story, among its likes. This study can contribute to the course of love affair, and its stories in Persian literature in ninth century (AH). In this paper, we first tried to properly introduce the poet and his work, and then, we address the relation between the lover, and the beloved in very compact way, and by maintaining the general structure of the work. The story has five main parts, birth of Jalal in the beginning of love (Jalal falling in love with Jamal), arriving in the territory of the beloved, meeting the beloved, and the end.