Literary Distinction in Standpoint of Muslim Literature Scholars

‎“Distinction” is one of the main components for the success and ‎continuity of any literary work. “Literary distinction” has not been ‎studied directly and concentrated in Islamic rhetoric; but this topic was ‎always in the focus of Islamic critics and rhetoricians. The major problem ‎in this research is receiving the attitude of Muslim literature scholars ‎towards the topic of “literary distinction”. By relying on the original ‎references in literary criticism and Islamic rhetoric, this article intends to ‎find out the essence of this discussion from the standpoint of different ‎opinions of Muslim literature scholars. While the literary distinction is the ‎result of convergence function of “form and specific meaning” in the ‎Islamic rhetoric, the fundamental topics including specific meanings and ‎forms, discretion-creating domination, mutual meanings and forms, plus ‎their types and subtypes have been investigated.‎This essay tried to make up the effectiveness of Islamic literary criticism ‎in this field in order to criticize the classic literary works based on such a ‎standpoint that the creators of these words believed in