The Usage of Personal Pronouns as Reflected in Tabaqat al-Sufiyya by Kawaja Abdullah Ansari and Ancient Herat Dialects

"Personal pronouns" is one of the important issues in Persian grammar that most of the linguists and grammarians have dealt in their works and more or less presented a similar definition to the subject. In general, personal pronouns in Persian language and most of the related text have been applied in the same way; but with reference to the presence of some of the linguistic features in some ancient texts that are outcome of their relationships with diverse periods and geographical domains, it is possible that personal pronouns could have been used to some extent in different forms. The current paper intends to show the manner and different applications of personal pronouns in Tabaqat-al-Sufiyya, their origin and ratio of homogeneity and non-homogeneity of the book with other ancient texts. The personal pronouns in this text have often been used jointly with other texts or in certain cases different from them. Here, we primarily focuses on the usage of personal pronouns in Tabaqat-al-Sufiyya and ancient Herat dialects and remember them as "shebhe shenase". Specific usage of personal pronouns, specially "shebhe shenase" in ancient Herat dialects and Tabaghat is influenced by moderate Persian. From the point of view of its objectives, the current research is an applied in nature which has been accomplished through descriptive-analytical method after a detailed study of Tabaqat-al-Sufiyya and some other sources.