Elhami and His Role in Consolidation and Expansion of Persian Language using Novel Words and Phrases as well as Aesthetics

Mirza Ahmad Elhami Kermanshahi is one of the greatest religious epic writers of Iran in 13th and 14th centuries AH who has written about forty six thousand couplets. His most famous work is Masnavi of Bagh-e-Ferdows contains the outset of Imam Hussain until rise of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. It has been written based on meter and in the same style as Shahnamed of Fordowsi. In this article we have tried to answer the question of how this poet could contribute to expansion of Persian language using novel words and phrases and aesthetics. His effect to do so has been proved by giving evidence of novel words and phrases and examples of aesthetics and imagery.