Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 18، number In Volume 12، March 2026 ، issue Number 118

A stylistic study of the "Zighunnameh" system of love

Mitra Kashefi , Maryam Mahmoudi (Author in Charge), Sadeghi Fallahi

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Zighunnameh system was written in the eighth century AH by a poet named "Meskin Muhammad ibn Abu al-Khair", pseudonym "Ashighi". A single copy of this religious epic is kept in the library of the Islamic Consultative Assembly under number 14172. The date of writing of this work is the month of Safar, 1220 AH. The system consists of 3000 verses and is about the battles of Muhammad Hanafiya and his love for a girl named Zighun.

METHODOLOGY: This research was conducted by collecting library information or descriptive-analytical method and the statistical population of the research is all the poems of the Zighunnameh system.

FINDINGS: From the perspective of stylistics in the linguistic and phonetic section, it should be said that the poet composed the main story in the form of a Mathnavi in ​​Bahr al-Hajj and included a few other ghazals and quatrains at the end of some sections. There are many verses in which the phonetic arrangement is evident. The puns of derivation and superfluity have a higher frequency among the puns. In the lexical section, the abundance of Arabic words has a high frequency and the poet has used old and archaic words to some extent. The use of abbreviations is also notable. At the syntactic level, the use of past and present tense verbs with the suffix "hami" is more common. Neyshaburi and ancient verbs are widely used, "mar" is used instead of "ra" in object sentences. The prepositions "vara" instead of "ora" and "az bahr" instead of ra are noteworthy.

CONCLUSION: The results of the research show that the poet had a source called Jangnameh in front of him in composing this story. One of the most widely used elements of expression in this poem is the use of similes. The similes used are mostly sensory. The images created through metaphor in this poem recall the metaphors of past centuries. Most of the metaphors used are of the type of allusion. In the section of novelistic devices, exaggeration, allusion, and assurance have a higher frequency.

Keyword
Stylistics , Zighun-nameh , Linguistic level , Literary level , Intellectual level.