Analysis of Literary Criticism Terms in the 11th and 12th Century Biography in India

Criticism propagation in Indian style has been common in the Persian language history. Biographies of the 10th, 11th and 12th A.H. centuries in Iran and India are the most important critical literary works in Persion language and literature before the constitutional revolution of Iran. Indian-native Persian-language biographers used specific critical terms to criticize the literary works of their own epoch. These terms were used for the description and analysis of literary texts. However, they never issued a theoretical description and the terms were used merely in actual criticism field. Nevertheless, understanding the meaning and concept of these terms would help the comprehension of viewpoints, and literary and critical works of those periods.