Iranian Persian Language and Literature Promotion Society Research on Mystical Literature HTTPS://JP 3 4 2010 02 20 Introduction to Naqqâli in Iran Introduction to Naqqâli in Iran 35 64 16363 FA Sajad Aydenloo Assistant Professor of Persian language and literature, PayâmeNoor University of Urumiyye Journal Article 2016 06 14 Naqqâli is an old art in Iranian culture and literature but its documents belong to Safavid period and later ages. Various accounts of Sohrâb koÅ¡i, s ( to klill Sohrâb) narration are important evidences for Naqqâli, s influence on Iranian people. The influence of Naqqâli on official literature and art continued from Safavid to the middle of Pahlavi period. Evidences from poems of Salim, Sohbat, Qââni and some paintings of Shâhnâme confirm this claim. <br />Naqqâli had special methods and those interested in it could learn it from skillful Naggal (story-teller) if they had certain characteristics like: good memory, eloquence and good voice. After some time, they could possess the scroll and tell the story (naql goftan). Some of the formalities of Naqqâli are: to stand on a bed in coffe -house or to sit on a chair, prologue, to demand praise and greeting to God, Mohammad and his descendants, to use gestures and to harmonize body parts with intonation, to use cane, reciting poems during prose reading, to perform some scenes, keeping sequence etc. Naqqâli is an old art in Iranian culture and literature but its documents belong to Safavid period and later ages. Various accounts of Sohrâb koÅ¡i, s ( to klill Sohrâb) narration are important evidences for Naqqâli, s influence on Iranian people. The influence of Naqqâli on official literature and art continued from Safavid to the middle of Pahlavi period. Evidences from poems of Salim, Sohbat, Qââni and some paintings of Shâhnâme confirm this claim. <br />Naqqâli had special methods and those interested in it could learn it from skillful Naggal (story-teller) if they had certain characteristics like: good memory, eloquence and good voice. After some time, they could possess the scroll and tell the story (naql goftan). Some of the formalities of Naqqâli are: to stand on a bed in coffe -house or to sit on a chair, prologue, to demand praise and greeting to God, Mohammad and his descendants, to use gestures and to harmonize body parts with intonation, to use cane, reciting poems during prose reading, to perform some scenes, keeping sequence etc. https://jpll.ui.ac.ir/article_16363_7d691d07b8f70066bb3a3690521921e2.pdf