Understanding a Text and Correct Reading

Document Type : pajoohesh

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Kholāsa al-Ash’ār va Zobda al-Afkār (A Summary of the Poems and the Best Thoughts) is a collection of the most detailed and complete biographies of the Persian poets by Mirtaqi al-Din Kāshi. A part of this book is called Khāteme that includes twelve articles each of which is dedicated to one of the geographical area of Iran. Article IX is about the poets of Shiraz and its suburbs, corrected by Nafise Irāni and published by Mirāth-e Maktoob publication. In the following paper, the author is going to criticize the mentioned correction; hence, he provides some instances from this book in order to depict the erroneous readings and its other problems.

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