Literary criticism is one of the important brance; hes of literary sdience whose indigenous criteria and norms are spontaneously seen in Persian literature. Therefore, it is necessary to extract criteria of literary criticism by criticizing and reviewing these texts and to put them in sets coherently to be used as an effective and reliable tool in the criticism of Persian literature. The present article is part of research which in the form of a PhD thesis seeks to extract the norms of literary criticism from Persian prose texts. By criticizing and reviewing the book " Altawassul – Ela- Altrassul" in an analytical_ descriptive manner, this article introduces, criticize and analyzes the criteria of literary criticism in this book. The present study shows that the norms of literary criticism of the book can be divided into four categories of text criticism, the need to pay attention to the audience position, author criticism and critique criticism. Influence of criteria of literary criticism in Arabic literature, using the poetry theory of Abdolqaher Jarjani and the author's personal acquisitions are the source of criteria of literary criticism in this book. The present study shows that the criteria of literary criticism in this book have some similarities with thoughts of hermeneutics, views of formalists and the theory of coherence of Holliday. These similarities indicates the effectiveness of the book's critical theories in today's literary criticism which unfortunately has been neglected and unused.

Keywords: literary criticism, prose texts, Monsha't and Tarsul, sixth century, Altawassul – Ela-Altrassul

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