An analysis of the structure and plot of the Haft Keshwar Introduction, the book by Fakhri Haravi

The Haft Keshvar (the seven Countries) is the work Fakhri Herawi, the famous writer poet of the court of Iran and India in the 10th century AH. This research, with a structural approach, has examined the introduction of this work, which is the special and artistic part of it. The questions emphasized in this research are about identifying the structure of the Haft Keshvar's introduction, showing the pattern of the plot of structure of the introduction, and expressing the connection between the introduction and the main content. In addition to the recognition of the totality of the literary work, the purpose of such studies is to make possible the comparison of the structural approach of the work with pre- and post-texts. This adds to the systematic collection of studies on Persian literature. This study uses the structuralism method, which emphasizes the structure of the work, and attempts to find a link between the form and the meaning using the ideas of scholars such as Propp in classifying the personality of the story, and Saussure and Strauss in the discourse and Tzvetan Todorov in episodic anecdotes, to explain the distinct levels of the narration of the introduction of the Haft Keshvar (Seven Countries).