studying minimmaliststory and its elements in holy quran

minimalist story is a kind of very short story that is summarized sometimes in some lines and sometimes in one page. it tells a short event and in addition includes deep contents.studying verses of holy quran we can see stories in different forms and lengths. meanwhile there are some storiesthat are not more than some lines in lengthso it is possible for the researcher to evaluate these stories based on technical standards of short story.  if short story nature of these koranic versesis proved, the popular view i.e. short story is western and modern will be questionedand marginalized. defining short story, counting its features and comparing it with fictional samples from some sura of holy quran including al-baqareh, al-hejr, al-nahl, and al-yasin, we investigate hypothesis of short story existence in quran. the study shows thesekoranicsamples are short and tell a short event and include compact and great concepts in addition to shortness. also they have main features of short story although complementary features can be recognized in them. achieving this resultconfirms thehypothesisof the article and represents islamic nature of short story origins.