Document Type : Research Paper
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Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature. department of Persian language and literature, faculty of literature and humanities. Tehran university, Tehran, iran
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phd graduate in Persian language and literature, department of Persian language and literature, faculty of humanities, tarbiat modares university, Tehran, iran.
Abstract
Majma’ ul-Khawas is a book on the subject of the biographies of poets written by Sadiq Beg Afshar. Sadiq Beg Afshar was a famous poet and painter during the Safavid era who wrote Majma’ ul-Khawas in the form of a prologue, eight chapters, and a conclusion, in which he introduced Persian poets of the 10th and 11th centuries AH. Although Sadiq Beg, under the influence of Majalis al-Nafais of Amir Alishir Navai, wrote this book in Jaghatai Turkish, since this work is written in the introduction of Iranian poets and its main part, namely the poems quoted, is in Persian, this collection can also be considered a work in Persian. In Iran, the only existing edition of this commentary, which was based on three manuscripts belonging to Turkish libraries, was compiled by Abdolrasoul Khayyampour and published with a Persian translation in 1948. This revision has been considered important since its publication, and criticisms have been written about it. Despite its importance and value, this edition has some shortcomings, such as misreading words, omission of verses and sentences, and errors in translation. The existence of these shortcomings in this publication has necessitated a new correction of Majma' ul-Khawas. Also, in some existing manuscripts of this work, including some copies in Iranian libraries that were not used by Khayyampour, there are important and noteworthy additions, such as biographies of thirty-seven Iranian poets, and this issue makes it even more necessary to carry out a new correction and translation of Majma' ul-Khawas.
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