COMPARATIVE-TYPOLOGY ANALYSIS OF THE EPISTLES "JAMSHID AND KHURSHID" AND "FARKHAD AND SHIRIN"
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The article is devoted to the issue of literary roots of images in the epic poem by Alisher Navoi "Farhad and Shirin". The external influences that prompted Navoi to create an epic with a new theme are analyzed. To clarify this issue, the epic poem "Jamshid and Khurshid" by the 14th - century Persian poet Salman Sovaji was taken as an object. Similar motifs are revealed in both epics. Here are some of them: Farhad is the prince of China, love at a distance, a journey with an artist friend, a dragon, a div, a sea voyage and a flood, advice from a wise old man, the hero's slavery, wandering alone in the mountains and friendship with wild animals, a battle with an enemy.
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