Khavarn Nameh Ibn Hisam Khosfi in domain of religious and historic Epic

Epic is one of the literary types. It has special definition and characteristic and divided in some kinds and types from different views. From one of these divisions, religious and historic Epics are of epic kinds. In this article beside the abstract representation of religious and historic Epics, with Khavarn Nameh Ibn Hisam Khosfi as pivotal domain which is one of the successful kinds of religious epics, the explanation of the characteristics of religious epics has been probed and with comparison of the structural characteristics of Khavaran Nameh with the features which has been specified to epics, the importance of the literary stance of this great religious epic in the domain of religious and historical epics has been emphasized.