Nasawi and The Validity of His Narrations (Evaluation of The Effects of less credible narrator in The Some narratives of Nasawi from the Life of Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah)

The book of Sirat-e Jalal al-Din Minkoberni is among the most important and reliable historical documents of the Khwarazmshahian and Mongol period, written by Shahab al-Din Nasawi with the aim of writing real history. In this study, citing the approach of Rhetorical narratology and the indicators of the 'Invalid narrator' theory in the opinions of rhetorical narratologists including Rimmon Kenan, James Phelan and Martin, the validity of the effect's narrator and the accuracy of some of his historical reports based on "textual and intertextual studies" have been evaluated. In textual studies, the signs of the narrator's invalidity and lack of credibility are identified as "moral evaluation of events and their judgment, the contradiction between the narrator's words and behavior, Linguistic and emotional cues, narrator acceptability, and the narrator's limited knowledge" and in the intertextual field, the narrations of the historian are examined with the historical texts of the same period and the "narrations deleted, abbreviated or erroneous" of the narrator are explained. Based on the results of the research, it can be said that despite the unique importance of the book in recording the life story of Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah and the epic depiction of his life in the face of the Mongol demons, some contradictory orientations of the narrator in depicting the character of Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah during the narration are distorted and invalid. For this reason, the audience is skeptical in the face of Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah and some cases finds him a shaky personality.