Morphological Analysis of a Story in Elahi-Nameh (Divine Letter) of Attar

One way of understanding the traditional Persian fictional literature is to check them with new and morphological methods of structural analysis. The purpose of this paper is to describe the building components of a story in Elahi- Nameh of Attar in order to discover the structural patterns of this story. This kind of literary criticisms is called morphology. Accordingly and with regard to building components of this story, the chosen story in Elahi-Nameh of Attar has been separated into different speeches, actions, heroes, moral lessons, time and space.