Kashf al-Mahjub has some stories whose extraordinary adventures are difficult to believe for readers. Nowadays, Magical Realism writers make these amazing events believable for readers by the use of factors like linguistic techniques, narrative arts, dreams, myths and so on. Have these factors been applied in Kashf al-Mahjub to make the mystical stories believable?
This article has compared the prose characteristics of Kashf al-Mahjub with attributes of successful Magical Realism stories. The results showed that Hjvyry has used two unique techniques to make extraordinary adventures believable centuries ago.These techniques have some similarities with credibility techniques in Magical Realism stories entitled:
a) the use of linguistic and literary devices, b) the adoption of elements of fiction and fundamental beliefs which have both been effective to make stories believable.
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