An Analytical - Research look into allegory from the viewpoint of Ghondozi and the eloquence writers before and after him

An allegory is a kind of literary genre with a long-standing application; and the eloquence writers since the far pasts have presented a variety of different opinions about it. One of these eloquence writersis Mahmood-ibn-e- Mohammad-ibn-e Ahmad Ghondozi – an Iranian scholarin in the 9th Hijri century and he is also the writer of a work called “eloquence”. Therefore, the present research tries to study and compare the allegory from the viewpoints of Ghondozi and other contemporary and classic eloquence writers of before and after he himself. To achieve this, after introducing the Ghondozi and his work, allegory was studied from the viewpoints of Ghondozi and was compared with the opinions of eloquence writers of before and after him; and their differentiation and common moods were determined in the table. The result of the present study that has been carried out using the documentary-analytical method indicates that Ghondozi’s views are closer to those of the past eloquence writers; and the basis of Ghondoizi’s ideas and his subsequent writers is based on the basis of the believes of past ones.