Analysis of the Syntactic Layers in Zayn al-Akhbar by Gardizi

Zayn al-Akhbar, by Abu Sa’id Abd al-Hayy Gardizi, isa history book that narrates the general history and incidents of Iran up to the year of 443 (AH), when it was written. The book has a simple and concise style resembling the Samanids’. It comprises short and connected sentences linked together with the coordinating conjunction “and”, specified by the term “coordinate style”. The frequency of Arabic words is a little more than that of the Samanid prose. Yet, it is somehow the continuation of the same prose of the Samanids era in terms of its stylistic features such as repetition, collocations, as well as the oldness of the text and its syntactic patterns. This is a descriptive-analytic paper.