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Hans Christian Andersen has a great difference with Mohamad-Ibn-e-Malek Dad, known as Shams-e-Tabrizi but some characteristics and behavioral features and ethics, also the verbalization of these two writers are very close to each other. These congruencies and similarities will be more interesting when we notice the works of both authors entailing “a duckling”. The duckling encounters the process of individuation in the search to recognize itself. The main question in the present study is that whether there is a relationship between the duckling mentioned by Shams-e-Tabrizi and the ugly duckling introduced by Andersen? Or whether the existence and presence of this issue (individuated duckling) in the works by these authors is completely random and accidental? The present study has been supplied through descriptive-analytic method and a library study. The findings of the present study showed that although we can not find any documents regarding the access of Andersen to books by Shams-e-Tabrizi, some evidences have rejected the random feature of such a study and categorize this study among the comparative studies. Although there are some clear closeness and intellectual similarities that form the main part of these two stories, one can come up with many differences in the route to achieve individuation process. The important thing in this comparative study is that who has been the initiator of this famous fable which has had a global fame?; Shams-e-Tabrizi or christen Andersen from Denmark?

Keywords: ugly duckling, Shams-e-Tabrizi, individuation process, articles by Shams, Christian Andersen

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