STORY GENRE IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE OF THE EAST (IN THE EXAMPLE OF THE WORK "NAHJ-UL-FARODIS")

The article focuses on the emergence and development of the prose didactic work in Eastern classical literature. Also, the narrative genre in the works written in the hagiographic direction is defined, and its characteristics are revealed. The development of the genre, its artistic features, and its compositional structure are revealed on the example of the work "Nahj-ul-farodis". At this point, attention is paid to the issue of the author's skill