In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Society for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature

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Audience persuasion, as a process used to change the audience attitude and associate him with the speaker's beliefs, is one of the main objectives of the educational mystics texts including the spiritual Mathnawi (Masnavii Ma’navi) of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Mawlana. Mawlawi all over the Mathnawi has tried to convey the mystical and religious concepts to the audience by resorting different ways of influencing the audience and has benefited from several verbal and nonverbal or mystical and non-mystical tools for this purpose. One of Mawlawi's ways of achieving this goal is to benefiting from the storytelling ways and expressing the under considering concepts in the form of conversation and debate among the characters of the story. Among the beautiful stories of Masnavi that clearly illustrates this theme is the story of Nakhjiran and Lion. Rumi promotes this story in a conversational way and from the language of each of the debate parties using specific methods to satisfy the opposite party, deals with the expression of common beliefs and faiths in the context of strive and trust. In this debate that takes place in two major parts: Debate between Nakhjiran and lion, debate between Rabbit and Nakhjiran; each of the debate parties uses specific ways to satisfy an opponent that most important of it includes: protest to verses and narratives, mentioning the intuitive, intellectual and conscientious reasons, use of body language, allegory and ...

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