Authors

• Kheirollah Mahmoodi ¹
• Shahnaz Baseri ²

¹ Associate Professor, University of Shiraz.

² PhD Candidate, Salman Farsi University, Kazerun

Abstract

Literature as a cultural mirror of every nation is the most reliable source that reflects customs, rituals, and beliefs of people intentionally. Undoubtedly, literature of our nation is among richest and brightest literatures as the human precious wealth. In addition of its unique historic features, Bihaghi History Book is one of the most precious literature sources. The source that as more we contemplate we do fascinate more and also we discovered its historical, cultural and…values. One of the cases that take attention of this pernicious heritage reader is precise mentioning and delicate attention of events, incidents and rituals and… of Masoud Ghaznavi government because of sharp attendance of Abolfazl Beihaghi at the central affairs of Masoud Court. Description of Mahmood Ghaznavi death and empowerment of Masoud is one of the main parts of this book. It is in this part that Beihaghi in describing Mahmood mourning rituals, despite that period costumes and rituals and even previous eras(according to its contemporary literature) by explaining white wearing of Masoud and his followers in Mahmood and Khalifa empowered by god mourning rituals. The costume that was completely oppose of other mourning descriptions in various Persian literatures up to writer s period. As if mourning and its specific features are one of the most significant characteristic of every nation customs and rituals, studying its causes and finding roots and origins of these differences is one of the main purposes of this research.

Keywords

• Mourning
• Color
• Beihaghi History Book