A Comparative Study of Kashani’s Mesbah al-Hdayah Text with Nahj al-Balaghah based on Genette’s Theory of Intertextuality Based on the theory of genet intertextuality

From the modern approaches to reading and criticizing literary texts, the theory of the ‘Gerard Genette’, which, in its interrelated axis, suggests three types of "explicitly deliberate", "hidden-deliberate," and "implicit" links between the two texts. In the field of literary studies, in the subject of the impact of texts from each other, important points in literary techniques such as adaptation, assurance, resolution, insertion, interpretation, and sometimes plagiarism are raised, which have always been the subject of attention from the rhetoric. The book, "Mesbah al-Hadaee and Moftah al-Faha", by Ezeddin Mahmoud Kashani (d. 735 AH), according to his firm position in the studies of Islamic mysticism in mystical topics that are the idiosyncratic terms of mystical expressions. All three types of effects based on the theory of Genette were from the Nahj al-Balaghah. In this paper, we try to revisit the four chapters of this book from this perspective. According to what follows, it can be said that Nahj al-Balaghah is a hypertext that Kashani has approached by authoring Mesbah al-Hdayah and the presence of the words of Imam Ali (as) in most of the lines of Kashani's book is bold and undeniable. The research method in this analytical-descriptive study is done by comparative analysis and providing evidence.