nafsatol masdoor" In the mirror of Arab literature

Nafsat-al-Masdur written by Shahab-al-din Mohammad Zeidari Nasavi is among worthy historic-literary works of the seventh century AH. This book has ornate and technical prose owing to the stylistic features of its period that has numerous Arabic proverbs and poems among figures of speech and spirituality, citation of verses and narrations. The author has used Arabic poems, proverbs and phrases amids the Persian prose by different devices in order to manifest his proficiency in employing the Arabic language. This paper intends to show the influence of Arabic language and literature on Nafsat-al-Masdur with a stylistic view And investigates the speech and spiritual relation of Arabic Poems and phrases with Persian prose as well as examine how Arabic phrases could make the speech consistent and how this relation is made qualitatively. The results of the study showed how the Arabic language and literature were influenced on Nafsat-al-Masdur and showed that Arabic phrases, on the one hand, could obtain structural position as part of speech such as: subject, object, complement, constraint and laminar in sentence or aesthetically manifest themselves in form of literary figures of speech and rhetoricartistic usages such as: likeness, allegory, joke, debate, and insult, on the other hand, they have built a semantic bridge to Persian prose by different methods such as: completion, emphasis, Tanzir (counterpart interpolation), description and Combination of meanings.