Mazmun
Mazmun is a term used in several languages of the Middle East and Central Asia to denote the content, subject matter, or substantive meaning of a text. In literary theory, mazmun is distinguished from form, style, and technique; it concerns what a work says, its themes, morals, or deeper messages rather than how it says them. The word derives from Arabic maẓmūn "contained" or "what is contained," and it has been adopted into Persian, Turkish, Uzbek, and related literary vocabularies.
In practice, mazmun can refer to the explicit subject of a poem or tale, but it is
Across Uzbek and Persian traditions, mazmun va forma (content and form) is a common contrast in scholarly