Comparative Study of the Text and Paintings of Nezami's Leili and Majnoon in Khamse Book in Hermitag Musume Based on Intertextuality Approach

One of the most beautiful and influential romantic Masnavis is Khamse's Leili and Majnoon by Nezami. Due to the amazing artistic work of the poet of Ganje, many admired that and many artworks have been made of that. This piece of research is classified as fundemental using li-brary method by taking notes of the articles, books thesis. Statistical population of the study consists of Leili and Majnoon images among which nine images were randomly taken for comparative study; it is comparative analytical study that compared the collected data gathered by taking notes from articles, thesis and books. Images hold a special place in in the structure of Leili and Majnoon's story. This pictorial aspect could be classified in terms of color, sym-bolic meaning, literary notions, intertextuality features etc. the main purpose in this article is the analytical study of these images based on intertextuality approach. From the view point of Gente One of the types of intertextualities is the relationship between pre-text and para-text; this rela-tionship is hold between two texts when I the second text there could be find explicit signs of the first one. Images of Nezami's Khamse depicting all three mythological and historical parts can be seen ; these creates intertextuality between images and the verse and have changes ver-bal figures readily to pictorial ones. This signifies the importance of Nezami's Khamse in the modern miniature context. Text driven and image driven data are analyzed based on intertextuality approach. Results indicated relative consistency in the use of pictorial figures from Nezami's poems and the contemporary miniatures.