Discourse Analysis of Imam Ali's Letters to the People Based on Aristotle's Theory of Persuasion

Nahj al-Balagha, as a coherent system of Imam Ali's (a.s.) words, resulting from the divine and guardianship system of the Holy Prophet , has always been the subject of reflection by Muslim and even non-Muslim thinkers. In this regard, examining the approach of Imam Ali's (a.s.) letters to the people as an important political-ideological trend and also discovering the meaning of their text in the underlying layers is important for preserving the Islamic society. The present study, using a descriptive-analytical method in accordance with a persuasive approach in Aristotle's theory of persuasion, seeks to answer the question of how the persuasive approaches in Imam Ali's (a.s.) letters to the people of different regions can be analyzed in the apparent sense with the Aristotelian triangle of ethos, pathos, and logos.The seven letters of the Commander of the Faithful to his audience in proving the central right of the Imam and refuting the approach of the opponents with credibility in expressing the truthfulness, truthfulness and audience recognition can be analyzed in the atos approach, in another area with the benefit of emotion, the component of encouragement, reminder and threat. In the position of pathos in the letters of the Imam, it is clearly evident. In addition, the use of the logic of logosic rational arguments is another aspect of persuasion, which is the achievement of the present research in discovering the persuasive approach of Imam Ali (a.s.) in accordance with the classical Aristotelian theory in dealing with the people of different regions