Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 16، number In Volume 9، December 2023 ، issue Number 91

Criticism of literary features, stylistics and sources of manuscripts of Dastur al-Muluk book

Saeide Same , Mehrdad Chetraei Azizabadi (Author in Charge), Mahbobeh Khorasani

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Ganj al-Ganj or Dastur al-Muluk is a book on practical ethics and royal etiquette written by Abulqasem Shazani Neishaburi between 503-509 AD. This work is written in 12 chapters on various topics, from Persian literature to ethics, politics, jurisprudence, mysticism, etc., as can be seen from the text, the contents of the book are missing until the second chapter. This collection is of considerable importance, firstly because of its uniqueness and then because of its age - which goes back to the Ghaznavid period. The purpose of this research is to criticize the literary and stylistic features and sources of the manuscripts of the book "Dastur al-Muluk" and after selecting the manuscripts of Dastur al-Muluk by searching in the Persian manuscript bank and ensuring the correctness of these manuscripts belonging to Shazani, they collected copies and prepared They were photographed.

METHODOLOGY: This article has been analyzed in an analytical-descriptive manner and according to its prominent stylistic features in three linguistic, intellectual and literary levels.

FINDINGS: After mentioning the subject and a brief explanation at the beginning of each chapter, Shazhani has examined the different dimensions of that subject in about thirty chapters. Simplification of the contents in this work has been done in several ways. In each chapter, he has given a story similar to its discussion, and by using the verses and sayings of the prophets, imams, rightly caliphs, philosophers, elders and Sufis, as well as quoting Persian and Arabic poems, except that he emphasized the correctness of the topic under discussion, it has turned into a work that can be understood by the general and the specific. Another method of the author to simplify the text is criticism and reasoning.

CONCLUSION: Dastur al-Muluk, a valuable work of the Ghaznavid era, contains twelve chapters, and as it appears from the text, the contents of the book are missing until the second chapter. In this instruction book, Shazani has provided a comprehensive instruction for office holders to achieve happiness in this world and the hereafter by mixing educational and political teachings with hadiths, verses, poems and words of philosophers and elders.

Keyword
Ganj al-Ganj , Abu al-Qasim Shazani , Dastur al-Muluk , manuscript , stylistics.

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