A Study of Tone in Bayhaqi's Tarikh

Bayhaqi''s Tarikh is a distinguished text of classic Persian prose that has moved from the field of history to the field of literature because of the literary and artistic approach of the writer to history. «Tone» in every literary work is the result of diverse elements such as narrative setting، linguistic idiolect، and universe of discourse. Bayhaqi''s Tarikh has also a particular tone; that is، it is a synthesis of different elements of literary narration like setting، characterization، dialogue، description، etc، and language devices like vocalization، neologism، composition as well as diverse dynamic dislocation of sentence. This paper studies this work in an analytic and positive method. It reviews the dominant tone in this work by studying the constitutive factors of tone as well as the quality of conformity of these factors. It finally concludes that the dominant tone of Beyhaqi''s Tarikh is an epic sublime one that both corresponds with the nature of the work and answers to the concerns of the writer and reader.