A Review of the One Hundred Persian Love Verses

One Hundred Persian Love Verses by Hassan Zolfaghari is one of the most comprehensive and popular books in the field of Persian love stories, which has now reached its third edition, about seven years after its first publication. The purpose of this article is to review this book. For this purpose, while briefly introducing the book, in three sections of structural critique, content critique and critique of sources, by mentioning the evidence and documents, have examined its flaws and shortcomings. Incomplete compliance of the title with the content of the book, problems in book chapters, lack of a single procedure in selecting titles of entries, inclusion of some imitations and stories from which there is not enough information, non-adherence to the structure provided for each entry, writing flaws and poor writing (structural flaws), putting love stories under lyrical and dramatic genre, problems in the morphology of love stories, some inaccurate and thought-provoking comments, incomplete/ wrong reporting of some stories, some incorrect data (content problems), the absence of some sources and some confusions in the list of sources and its inconsistency with references are the problems that will be solved in the second edition, will increase the credibility and acceptability of the book.