Koran is the manifestation of the divine might and is the greatest divine miracle for all men. This leading book of the highest rhetorical power has always inspired the poets. They have enjoyed its unique expressions in their works. Due to tendencies toward Sufism and the poets’ interest in virtue, this kind of inspiration appeared in the literature of enhetat (collapse) period. Safi-oddin-e - Helli, one of the greatest poets of this period, had a great knowledge on the Koranic literature and was a Shia who grew in one of the literary Iraq cities, Helleh. His poems illustrate the influence of this holy book. This article is an intertextual study, using a descriptive-analytic approach to investigate the effects of the Koranic verses on Helli's poetry. The influence of Koranic verses is clearer and bolder in the motifs like prophetic panegyrics. He quotes and personalizes Koranic verses extensively.

Intertextuality, introduced following linguistic researches in the West, is a newly coined term that refers to an old notion and was previously known in terms like: citation, adaptation, borrowing and mimesis. Most of the Muslim poets have been inspired by Quran since it has always been a source of inspiration for them, opening new horizons in front of their eyes. Thus, using Quranic verses has remained an indispensible part of the poets’ literary career. Poets contemporary to the Prophet took advantage of the form and meaning of the Quranic concepts and ornamented their lines with them. Abdol Alrahim Buraei, has extensively used Quranic concepts in his poems which are being studied in the present research. The contributors to this paper intend to discuss intertextuality along with highlighting its aspects in Rowaha’s poetry.