The Signs of Physical Beauty in Persian Literature

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Assistant Professor at Zarrin Shahr Payame Noor University, the Department of Persian Language and Literature

Abstract

We can talk a lot about the physical aesthetic signs of beauties in Persian literature and especially in Persian poems. Despite the fact that all over the Persian literature and history is about beauty and aesthetics, it's amazing that with this vast literature there isn’t any specialized writing still about this fact. The ancients examined this fact with a science named Elm-al-Jamal. In this article we first go through the ancient and then contemporary aesthetic study. The next part searched missing links of beauty in ancient Persian before Islam, and then we find the signs of beauty in Persian poems and show the changing and developmental trend of beauty. At last we explain the cause of the stability of the aesthetic taste ancients had in Persian poems.

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