Document Type : scientific-research

Authors

• Vahid Sabzianpoor ¹
• Hadis Darabi ²

¹ Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature

² MA Studen, Razi University of Kermanshah

Abstract

Fakhr-al-din Ali Safi is an outstanding author of the 10^th century and the writer of the book “latayef-al-tavayef”. This book merely concentrates on debates and discussions narrating a collection of jokes belonging to various social levels in simple prose and has numerous historical and literary advantages. Safi has collected the contents of this book from his predecessors. He also added other advices belonging to his own era. The book is divided into various parts with different political, social, and religious contents. What distinguishes this book from the other book with similar content is using humorous narrative tales which has more influential impact on the minds of the audience. It is worth noting that due to Arabic nature of his tales and the audience, he has sometimes referred to Arabic sources. Here, the researchers intend to investigate Arabic references of the part four of the book, titled “Humorous quotes of the leaders, their relatives, Ministers and Supreme Lords”; in that chapter he has named no references except Samar-al-Ghloub Salaebi.

Keywords

• Ali Safi
• Latayef-al-tavayef
• Humor
• Arabic reference
• Kings and Ministers