Chalesh miyan e Farsi va Arabi (challenge between Persian and Arabic): a literary or historical approach?

Chalesh miyan e Farsi va Arabi (Ney publication, 2006), written by Azartash Azarnoush, explains the challenges between two main languages of the Muslim world; Persian and Arabic. Although it has been welcomed by scholars because of the author's proficiency in Arabic literary studies, several criticisms have been presented on the theory offered in the book. The article here, as another criticism and applying a historical approach, attempts to examine the degree of writer’s loyalty to the historical facts. Accordingly, the historical data of this book have been evaluated based on the historical methodology. The findings show that the inadequacy of the historical insight of the book has led to weakness of the theory of challenge between Persian and Arabic languages.