Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Zahra Bahreinian ¹
• Sayyedeh Maryam Rozatian ²
• Omid Zakerikish ¹
• Masoud Algooneh Jouneghani ¹

¹ Department of Persian Language and Literature Humanities Faculty, University of Isfahan, Iran

² , Department of Persian Language and Literature Humanities Faculty, University of Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

century A.H. is vividly reflected in Nizami's Iskandarnameh.Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis(CDA), which emphasizes the interconnection between text, interaction, and social context, provides a powerful framework to identify the dominant discourses of the era and the ideological role of institutional power in shaping them.based on this model, two letters exchanged betweenDara and Alexander prior to the battle are analyzed at three levels: description, interpretation, and explanation. The descriptive level examines linguistic features such as rewording, overwording, Hyponymy, Antonymy, agency, nominalization, passivation, sentence polarity, and cohesion; the interpretation level addresses the situational and intertextual context; and the explanation level synthesizes the insights gained. The analysis reveals three prevalent discourses aimed at political dominance: kiship, religiosity, and militarism.Nizami strengthens the discourses of religiosity and militarism while challenging the kindship discourse.He also promotes an ideology of Xenophilia, opposing the dominant xenophobic tendencies.Within the religious framework of the text, three discourses emerge: Islamic piety, Ash'ari theology, and philosophical rationalism. Nizami critiques islamic piety, but through a creative synthesisof Ash'ari and philosophical elements, he reconstructs a rationalist discourse.

Keywords

• Nizami's Iskandarnameh:
• Ideology:
• Critical Discourse Analysis:
• Fairclough
• power:
• Discourse

Main Subjects

• متون نظم