The Poetical Works by Shams al-din (Jalāl al-din) Varkāni: a Review

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The third book of the series of “Iranian Texts” compiled by Javād Bashary was published in 2012 by the Publication of Library, Museum and Document Center of Iran Parliament. This book is made up of two parts. The first part includes ten corrected texts. The second text of this part covers around one thousand couplets of Shams al-din (Jalāl al-din) Varkāni’s poems, the poet of 6th and 7th Century, which were corrected by Ismāiel Shamushaki. He has used two versions of Kholāse al-Ash’ār, one of which is in the possession of the Library of Islamic Parliament and the other one is held by the Central Library of Tehran University. The writer of the present article is going to talk about his views on the correction of Shams al-din (Jalāl al-din) Varkāni’s poems. Regarding this, he, providing some examples from the text, points out the scribe’s errors, or the corrector’s misreading and comparative corrections.

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