Study of the effect of religious tendencies on the way of narrating interpretive stories (based on prominent female characters in the three commentaries of Rouz al-Janan, Jala al-Azhan and Manhaj al-Sadeghin)

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Authors
Abdollah Radmard 1
Maryam Salehinia 2
kowsar ahsanmoghadam 3
1 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Shariati Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran
2 Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Shariati Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran
3 PhD of Persian language and literature, Shariati Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran
Abstract
This article aims to investigate the influence of religious tendencies on the way of narrating interpretive stories. In this research, the story narratives of three Persian and Shiite commentaries, Roz al-Janan, Jala al-Azhan, and Manjah al-Sadeghin form the body of the text. This article tries to draw the reflection of Shia tendencies in each of the mentioned works by using the method of qualitative content analysis and by examining the representation of prominent women of the two Shia and Sunni religions in the narratives of these three commentaries and explains the differences between these images. and to reveal the influence of the social and religious coordinates of the authoring period on these distinctions. The difference in the representation of Shiite tendencies in these interpretive stories has been achieved by three general methods of deletion, addition or change in the text of the narrative.
Rooz al-Janan was written in the vicinity of the Sunnis, and the author indulged in a kind of peaceful coexistence and refrained from emphasizing sensitive issues as much as possible, and emphasized religious commonalities more; However, Ghazor's commentary and Manhaj al-Sadeghin's commentary, which were written during the period of the conquest of the Shiite religion, show their religious tendencies by adding or highlighting some important Shiite figures and their narratives, or by changing or deleting some narratives related to prominent figures of Sunni women, or by removing their titles and attributes.

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