Abol-favares Shah Shoja Kermani was a Sufi of the third century A.H. The present paper uses the ambiguously related story of his life to present a new approach to the classification of information that is found in different documents. This approach can be extended to the study of other such ambiguous figures in Persian literature. The first step was to isolate the informative propositions about the personality of Shah Shoja from various sources. Then each of these propositions was traced in the literature in order to compare how it is presented in different sources and how it has been received by biographers in different periods. Such study can shed light on the reason for the attention of authors to certain aspects of the life of a figure, the elaboration of propositions in different sources, as well as the reason why certain propositions have been repeatedly mentioned throughout the history of literary biography. The authors believe that the methodology is particularly fecund for this type of study
Hashemiyan, L., & Qaemi, M. (2018). A New Approach to the Study of Shah Shoja's Life. Journal of History of Literature, 11(1), 181-204. doi: 10.48308/hlit.2018.98873
MLA
Leyla Hashemiyan; Mohsen Qaemi. "A New Approach to the Study of Shah Shoja's Life", Journal of History of Literature, 11, 1, 2018, 181-204. doi: 10.48308/hlit.2018.98873
HARVARD
Hashemiyan, L., Qaemi, M. (2018). 'A New Approach to the Study of Shah Shoja's Life', Journal of History of Literature, 11(1), pp. 181-204. doi: 10.48308/hlit.2018.98873
VANCOUVER
Hashemiyan, L., Qaemi, M. A New Approach to the Study of Shah Shoja's Life. Journal of History of Literature, 2018; 11(1): 181-204. doi: 10.48308/hlit.2018.98873