Shahshahnameh stylistics

Writing the Shahnameh during the Ilkhanian period was one of the ways that the Ilkhanian used to legitimize their government by communicating between the Ilkhanian and mythological kings, and they supported Shahnameh writers and poets as a way to gain legitimacy and accept the Iranian identity for themselves. created The content of historical-epic poems of this period mainly included the history of Iran after Islam. Ahmad Tabrizi worked on the order of his historical epic during the Mongol conquest and in the court of Ilkhanian. Tabrizi wrote the poem Shahshahnameh in imitation of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. The stylistic analysis of this work can clarify new dimensions of the literary history of this period. The present article examines the three linguistic, literary and intellectual levels of half of this system (eight thousand verses).

Considering its theoretical nature, the current research is based on library studies and in a descriptive-analytical style, and the community under study is Shahshahnameh, by Mahshid Gohari Kakhki and Javad Rashki Aliabadi, published by Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Endowment Foundation.

The poet has largely avoided using foreign words and the number of Arabic, Turkish and Mongolian words is very few and insignificant. In the original word, industries have more puns and repetitions. Similes and metaphors also have a high frequency among expressive industries. Praise and war are also dominant themes in the Shahshahnameh.

Using linguistic and rhetorical tools, Ahmad Tabrizi has described the battles and bravery of Changiz Khan and his successors, and has cleverly and secretly expressed their bloodsheds and tyranny, and has praised Iranian warriors and mythological kings at every opportunity. Among them, Jalaluddin Khwarazmshah, who considered him to be rich and cultured and painted a painful picture of his death.