homer’s the odyssey and taskin-e-shirazi’s falaknaz nameh: a comparativestudy of the role of women

The book falak naz nameh is among the love-epic couplets and one of the lyrical works of thepersian literature in the thirteenth century ah which shares some similar epical features with europeanromance and was said by a poet of arab descent named yaqub ibn masud with the pen name of taskin-e-shirazi. the present inquiry has a comparative look at the aforementioned book and the epic written byhomer (the blind greek poet) and compares and contrasts women in both epic books. through a profoundview, the similarities and differences of the two foregoing poets with regard to women were investigatedand scrutinized. in both stories, the presence and participation of women are among the main focuses andsome or all part of the epics are based on their roles and activities; moreover, the logical and reasonableprocedure of the story are taken by them. therefore, the topic of woman and the part she plays are amongsignificant features in both epopees, for women are the causes of the establishment and continuation ofwhat happens in the two stories.