Story Components in Khamse of Nezami

One approach,among others, to understand the Persian traditional fiction is reviewing itby new critical methods, using structural analysis of the narrative texts.There is very littlematerial about the narrative techniques of Nezami.Considering the components constituting the structure of his tales (such as subject,characterisation, climax, etc), this article carefully tries to classify them. The characters’gender, social class, the quality and quantity of their presence, methods of narrating anddifferent kinds of dialogue are other topics which are considered in this article.