Meaningful combination of fiction and non-fiction using nested narration style (case study: Tayf al-Hallaj by Maqbul-al-Alawi)

As an inspiring case, history has always played a great role in improvement of imagination of authors. In the meantime, sometimes the past is not only a remnant of history and its adaptive role, but it has come to life again and so interchanged into present so that it is very difficult to separate its borders.Current authors have realized that today events are reflections of past events which despite their actors must be seen as events which are flowing. Hallaj and his well-known story is among the stories which inspired Maqbul-al-Alavi, a great Arab author, to review this event through the lens of a recurring flow and thought. Thus, he used nonfiction and chronicle for the event of Hallaj and combines that with a contemporary story through nested stories and using his unique technical strategies. He intends to release Hallaj and his event from a historical character and generalize it in a continuous current stature. Therefore, in this study, we intend to assess the success of the author in defining this historical event in a descriptive method based on the mentioned model of narration.The obtained results suggest that using non-fiction and combining that with another fiction which has been nested, have met the goals of author in combining past to the present and also releasing the character from the history and mainstreaming of that.