NARATOLOŠKA ANALIZA PRIČE O ŠEJHU IZ SAN'ANA U VERZIJI HASANA ZIJAIJA MOSTARCA U SVJETLU PERZIJSKE SUFIJSKE KNJIŽEVNE TRADICIJE
A NARRATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HASAN ZIYAI MOSTARI’S THE STORY OF THE SHEIKH OF SAN’AN IN LIGHT OF THE PERSIAN SUFI LITERARY TRADITION

Summary/Abstract: Sixteenth-century poet Hasan Ziyai Mostari is among those Bosniak writers who wrote in Oriental languages. Little information about Ziyayi was recorded by his contemporaries; however, it is clear that he was the first Bosniak poet to leave behind a full Divan (collection) of poetry in Ottoman Turkish and Persian languages. Besides his poetry collection, Ziyayi wrote a Sufi poem in the form of mathnawi, entitled The Story of Sheikh Abdurrezzak (Kissa-ifeyh Abdurrezzak). The source of this poem was a story about the Sheikh of San’an, from the work The Conference of the Birds (Manteq al-teir) by Feriduddin Attar Nishaburi. However, this story is considerably expanded in Ziyayi’s version. The manner in which this occurs is similar to the narrative technique used by Jalaluddin Rumi in his Mathnawi. Another important issue discussed in this paper is the transposition of the story of the Sheikh of San’an/ Sheikh Abdurrezzak from the secondary to the primary position in the narrative structure of the text.

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