Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mohsen Shafeie ghahdarijani ¹
• Mohden Mohammadi ²

¹ PHD Student in Persian Language and Literature of University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

² Associate prof, in Persian language and literature, university of isfahan. isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Divination books (Faalnameh) form a Persian literary genre that has not been independently researched so far. This literary genre includes many subgenres, some of which have found an independent aspect and some have not been able to become an independent genre. The prediction of the dominant and the dominated (ghaleb va maghlub) is one of the genres that has not acquired its own literary aspect and has not become an independent literary form. As a prediction method used in war and sometimes in wrestling to predict the winner, it has been mentioned in many literary and historical texts, both implicitly and explicitly. Among the most prominent texts in which the prediction method of the dominant and the dominated are reflected are Khosrow and Shirin and Sharafnameh by Nizami. It is not possible to understand and comprehend Nizami's speech if we are not familiar with the structure and type of the prediction of the dominant and the dominated.In this article, we have tried to examine the structure and types of this prediction method with regard to existing and available printed and handwritten texts and to explain how it works.
 

Keywords

• The prediction of the dominant and the dominated (ghaleb va maghlub)
• Nezami
• books of fortune
• ‎Aristotle

Main Subjects

• ادبیات قدیم