Narrative reading of the historical event "Execution of Hasanak Vazir" based on the theory of David Herman

The history of Beyhaqi, as one of the unique literary-historical works, has always captured the researchers’ attention due to its special narrative features. Abolfazl Beyhaqi has broken the boundaries between history, story and narration by using special methods of narration in his work and has created a distinct literary work out of historical events. In this essay, we analyzed different angles of the historical event of "execution of Hasanak" with the analytical-descriptive method, the narratology approach and referring to David Herman's theory. In his theoretical foundation, Herman introduces four levels of situatedness, event sequencing, worldmaking/world disruption, and what-it’s-like to analyze the structure that leads to narrative. The analysis of Beyhaghi's narration of this event shows that he has used different methods from other historians of this period at every level and was able to distance himself from the level of reporting and approach the level of creation. At the level of situatedness, Beyhaghi appears with different faces in the narration and with interactive techniques and multiple positions, he takes the text out of the monotony of reporting. At the level of the event sequencing, we also see a specific narrative process that has a teleological determination and distances the text from the state of mere reporting. In the third level of narration, Bayhaghi has created his narrative world by combining main and secondary events, which ultimately leads to creating a sense of empathy in the audience.