Folk tales and Literary Genres According to Beyghami's Firooz Shāh Nāme

Firooz Shāh Nāme, written in the 9th century A.H., is essentially a book on love which narrates the epic events, and describes the features of brigands and fairy tales. Researchers have done their best to study these features according to the principles and literary genres proposed by Aristotle. This article reads this story from the perspective of Old Persian poetics of fiction and concludes that Old Persian folk tales constitute a different genre which originates from an ancient tradition of story-telling. The Narrator, in this genre, makes use of various literary aspects and categories.