Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani

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Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani was an Iranian literary critic.

Kirmānī emphasized "that it is meaning, not the mode of expression, that exerts the real influence on the reader,"^[1] and thus discouraged the "destruction of the natural clarity of language ... by means of complicated metaphors, difficult words, long sentences, and complex expressions."^[2]

He published many works on literary criticism:

• Fann-i guftan va nivishtan ("Art of speaking and writing")
• Nāmah-i bāstān ("Book of ancient times")
• Āyīnah-i sekandarī ("Alexandrian mirror")
• Nāmah-i sukhanvārān ("Book of eloquent speakers"), or Āyīn-i sokhanvārī ("Rules of eloquence")
• Takvīn va tashrīʿ ("Creation and lawmaking")
• Sih maktūb ("Three letters")
• Sad khaṭābah ("One hundred lectures")

See also

• Literary criticism in Iran

References

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