Rhetorical terms in Safavid biographies

Abstract

Rhetoric and eloquence are among literary sciences ‎which help the critics in reviewing texts. Rhetoricians have ‎special rules for words and speakers which may change ‎during the period of literary history along with the changing ‎taste of scholars and critics . A literary text as having the ‎characteristics of the rhetoric and eloquence may be reviewed ‎at any period of history in a different way. In the Safavid era ‎with the fusion of Persian poetry and the taste of Hindi poets ‎‎,further developments of this sort happened. In that era the ‎biographers by changing the standards of Rhetoric and ‎eloquence have used some terms. Studying these terms helps ‎to understand their perspectives towards rhetoric and eloquent ‎texts.‎

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