the role of shahnameh’s verses in textual coherence of tarikh-e jahangosha

tarikh-e jahangosha is the most important work about kharazmshahian and the mongols. utilising imagery, rhetoric, abundant persian and arabic poems, quranic verses and traditions, and proverbs have caused the prose to resemble poetry, fading its historical goals. here, quoting verses from the mythological parts of shahnameh, rostam and sohrab stories (37verses), and rostam and esfandiar (26 verses) doubles the literary value of the book on the one hand, and brilliantly indicates joveini’s inclination to shahnameh and ferdowsi on the other. studying the coherence and the congruency between the verses of shahnameh and the prose of tarikh jahangosha, this essay seeks to scientifically demonstrate that this connection has occurred with a rhetorical approach, mentioning that it should be attended more in connection to the structural aspect than the historical goals of the book. therefore, the functions of shahnameh’s verses in tarikh-e jahangosha and the methods of their merging has been studied from three aspects of syntactic, semantic, and literary, and each with appropriate evidence. key words: tarikh-e jahangosha, shahnameh’s verses, syntactic connections, semantic connections, literary connections, textual coherence.