Intertextuality is the overt or covert appearance of a contemporary or
earlier text in another, and texts with similar themes can more often
impact each other intertextually. From this perspective, the intertextual
impact of ‘Attār’s Asrār Nāmeh, as the background text, on
Shabestari's Golshan Rāz, as the foreground text, was studied. It is
argued that this intertextual impact ...