A Content and Stylistic Study of Bahr Al-Khavvas

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Persian literature and language department , humanities faculty, Vali Asr university, Rafsanjan, Iran.

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Purpose: Bahral-Khavass is one of the most important qarabadins of the 9th century AH. The inclusion of drug substitutes, local names of herbs, and the incorporation of the opinions of numerous physicians alongside the author's own theories significantly enhance the work's importance.  The aims of this research are to identify the author, to introduce Bahr al-Khavass and its characteristics, and to determine its place among similar works.
 
Method and Research: This research employs a descriptive-analytical method to introduce and examine the content of Bahr al-Khavass.
 
Findings and Conclusions: Bahr al-Khavass is a compilation of the opinions of more than 60 physicians and the author's own theories. The translation of the herbs names into five languages and seven dialects, and the presentation of new drug combinations, make it an outstanding work.  The prose of Bahr al-Khavass is intermediate; the use of archaic grammatical and morphological structures, literary devices, and reflections of the author's personal thoughts in the text are minimal.
 
Conclusions: Bahr al-Khavass was influenced by Golestan and Ekhtiyarat-e- Badiei. The first article includes herbs names in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, and Greek, along with dialects from Egypt, Shami, Khorasani, Kerman, Shiraz, and Kabul. The author utilizes the opinions of Avicenna, Ansari, Arastatalis, Tabari, and others. Archaic linguistic and grammatical structures and literary devices such as antithesis, rhyme, parallelism, simile, and metaphor are infrequent. The author's act of praise, his study of medical and astronomical works, and his relative knowledge in these fields are prominent themes in this work.

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Journal of Prose Studies in Persian Literature
Volume 27, Issue 56
December 2024
Pages 23-38

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