Persian Language and Literature
Arash Amraei
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Divan Khaqani is one of the texts that requires mental effort to understand; the difficulty of Khaqani's poetry on the one hand and its teaching in different courses of Persian language and literature on the other hand has made commentators interested in its description, and several descriptions and ...
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Divan Khaqani is one of the texts that requires mental effort to understand; the difficulty of Khaqani's poetry on the one hand and its teaching in different courses of Persian language and literature on the other hand has made commentators interested in its description, and several descriptions and excerpts have been published. One of these books is a book called "Saghar-e Bolourin". This book was written by Mr. Ahmed Ghanipour Malik Shah and Tirgan Publishing published it for the first time in 2019. In addition to the good aspects of this book, there are some problems, and a detailed and complete review of all of them does not fit in one article. Therefore, the most important items have been selected and reviewed here. Semantic problems of some verses, numerous uses of other people's works without referring to them, writing problems, incorrect references, unjustified changes in the text of poems, not following the precise and scientific method in writing and documenting and introducing the list of sources, not introducing the description method, and other requirements of writing a book are among the things that are included in the list of the book shortcomings. While carefully examining the mentioned problems, finally, by showing many inaccuracies in the book, we come to the conclusion that the book needs serious editing and these problems noticeably cast a shadow on the scientific position of the book.
Persian Language and Literature
Seyyed Mehdi Dadras
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Determining the pronunciation of words - based on the prosodic meter and rhyme - has been a topic of long discussion for Persian literati and lexicographers, and in the modern era, editors of Early Persian literature have also shown great interest in this subject. Recently, Vahid Idgah Torghabei ...
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Determining the pronunciation of words - based on the prosodic meter and rhyme - has been a topic of long discussion for Persian literati and lexicographers, and in the modern era, editors of Early Persian literature have also shown great interest in this subject. Recently, Vahid Idgah Torghabei (1399/ 2020) has done a comprehensive study on this subject, titled Pronunciation in Early Persian Poetry, in which he presents numerous findings on uncommon and dialectic alongside some pronunciation suggestions. In the current study, some of the authorʼs conjectures are criticized and denied based on lexical considerations. Since these considerations emphasize the pronunciation of words, they can be utilized in future similar researches in the general sense and besides criticizing the book. Reviewing this evidence reveals some flaws and methodologic weaknesses in this work: First, the authorʼs inadequate mastery over the lexicon of Middle and New Iraninan languages. Second, his tendency towards systematization by the cost of neglecting exceptions which is in contrast with the claim of “Total Inductionˮ and the critique of “Uniforming and generalizing Outlookˮ in the study. Finally, the most critical problem of his methodology, which is the domination of a prescriptive understanding of phonetic features of dialects.
Persian Language and Literature
Fereshteh Aliani; Moharram Rezayati
Abstract
Academic textbooks should be written in a way that meets the needs of the audience in various related scientific and research fields. To this end, critical evaluation of academic texts is a vital step in the consistency of any discipline and its curriculum. This need is especially felt in the recently ...
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Academic textbooks should be written in a way that meets the needs of the audience in various related scientific and research fields. To this end, critical evaluation of academic texts is a vital step in the consistency of any discipline and its curriculum. This need is especially felt in the recently established field of Folklore literature. The books that have been written so far about the basics of this newly established discipline are not more than a limited number, but these studies are expanding day by day, so it is vital to criticize these sources in order to improve the quality of the books. Undoubtedly, every written text has useful and significant aspects, and it probably has some issues that reminding and solving would result in the work`s edition. With this description, in order to achieve such a goal, the present article, with a descriptive-analytical method and a critical approach, reviewed one of the most important books in the field of Folk literature, namely "Folklore Culture". The most important results of this research are shortcomings such as not addressing the research background of the issues raised, generalization in some cases, purely descriptive approach, lack of organized connection between theory and other parts of the book, etc., as well as finding the advantages and innovative aspects of this book. This work, with minor modifications, can be valuable work for researchers in the field of Folk literature.
Persian Language and Literature
Peiman Abolbashari
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The book “Sufism and Politics in Prose Texts until the End of the Fourth Century AH”, written by Mahdi Heidari, is a collection of eight re-published articles under the banner of a Book. The chapters of the book are based on fragile, non-historical theories and on the transcendental concept ...
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The book “Sufism and Politics in Prose Texts until the End of the Fourth Century AH”, written by Mahdi Heidari, is a collection of eight re-published articles under the banner of a Book. The chapters of the book are based on fragile, non-historical theories and on the transcendental concept of unity and plurality and its effect on the establishment of Sufi multifaceted relations with politics. The choice of a weak hypothesis along with a lack of method has made the author lose track of the historical background and context and has caused the time and place to be lost in the text. Heidari has also made it impossible for the average audience to read the book by quoting untranslated Arabic narrations. Some generalizations of error in the classification of Sofia are prominent errors that have seriously damaged the work. In this article, an attempt has been made to critique the quality of the book, especially in terms of content analysis
Persian Language and Literature
Hadi Akbarzadeh
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“Kelileh va Demneh”, translated by Abul Maali Nasrullah bin Muhammad Munshi, is one of the valuable and lasting works of Persian prose of the 6th century, which has been edited and published many times in Iran and abroad. Undoubtedly, the revised edition of Mojtaba Minavi in 1343 in Tehran ...
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“Kelileh va Demneh”, translated by Abul Maali Nasrullah bin Muhammad Munshi, is one of the valuable and lasting works of Persian prose of the 6th century, which has been edited and published many times in Iran and abroad. Undoubtedly, the revised edition of Mojtaba Minavi in 1343 in Tehran is the best of them. Among the other corrections and explanations of this book, which researchers do not need to refer to when reading the text of “Kelileh va Demneh”, the correction and annotations are by Ayatollah Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli, who published the sixth edition of it in 2019 from Bostan publisher. Although Ayatollah Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli prepared this work from several manuscripts and with Arabic “Kelileh va Demneh”, and he also reminded me of the misreading, distortions, and other defects in the printed documents, the author has found errors and slips in the correction, research, and annotations of Ayatollah Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli of “Kelileh va Demneh”, which he criticizes and evaluates some of them by comparing the printings of Minawi and Gharib as well as some other manuscripts in this essay.
Persian Language and Literature
Sarah Zabihi; Mohammad Ali Khazanehdarloo
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The subject of the present study is the criticism and pathology of the articles in the field of “Nafthat ol-Masdoor”-related research. Due to the lack of record of “Nafthat ol-Masdoor”-related research, the present article tries to achieve the purpose of compiling “Nafthat ...
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The subject of the present study is the criticism and pathology of the articles in the field of “Nafthat ol-Masdoor”-related research. Due to the lack of record of “Nafthat ol-Masdoor”-related research, the present article tries to achieve the purpose of compiling “Nafthat ol-Masdoor”-related research, describing the status of research and criticism and pathology of the articles. For this purpose, a descriptive-analytical method of quantitative-qualitative analysis with a critical approach and citing library and documentary sources is considered. The research results in the record section show 140 articles in this field. In the criticism and pathology section, being general considering the titles, weaknesses in the theoretical foundations and some structural parts of the article, description of examples instead of analysis, defects in resources, ignoring the new perspectives of critiques and theories, and types of background research shortcomings are discussing, which have some consequences including the repetition in subject, finding, and result, central education, confusion and scattering of the materials, and finally researcher's confusion and keeping articles away from innovation. The authors, while enumerating the structural errors of the articles that are closely related to each other, suggest some solutions such as turning to meta-critique, meta-study, meta-discourse, and the fields of scientometrics at the end of the research.
Persian Language and Literature
Amir Hossein Madani
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Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani is a contemporary, diligent, and tireless scholar and a man of letters who has proven his mastery, skillfulness, precision, and poetical artistry in various literary fields such as writing, translation, editing, and poetry. Editing priceless mystical works is one of his ...
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Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani is a contemporary, diligent, and tireless scholar and a man of letters who has proven his mastery, skillfulness, precision, and poetical artistry in various literary fields such as writing, translation, editing, and poetry. Editing priceless mystical works is one of his favorite fields. His bright resume in this field is no less than his research works. The edited version of Attar’s “Tadhkiratu ‘l-Awliya” in three sections of introduction, text, and annotations, is one of his works in this field. Shafiei Kadkani’s academic rigor, abundant mystical knowledge, writing the biography of undistinguished mystics, diligence in research, honesty and being true to the main text, criticizing the scribes for using incorrect words and interpolating, having useful information on methodology and morphology, artistic and poetic translations, and having a good grasp on bibliography are some of the features of this masterful editing. These features can be used to answer the following fundamental questions. What are the advantages and merits of Shafiei Kadkani’s annotations in “Tadhkiratu ‘l-Awliya” and why are their values no less than the main text? This article mentions the advantages of the aforementioned annotations in detail under ten titles. The author believes that solitary editing is fruitless even if it’s done through the best scientific methods and it would do no good other than introducing the literary work on a basic level. It is only when the text is embellished with an introduction and well-researched annotations, which is the result of pondering on every inch of meaning in the text, that it comes to life, dusts itself off the obscurity, and talks to the readers.
Persian Language and Literature
Mohammad Reza Movahedi
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The article is a critique of the book "Dictionary of Sufism and Mysticism" by Dr. Mohammad Estelami, which has been prepared in two volumes. After expressing the good aspects of the book, some of the formal and content weaknesses of the book have been enumerated. Some of the most important weaknesses ...
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The article is a critique of the book "Dictionary of Sufism and Mysticism" by Dr. Mohammad Estelami, which has been prepared in two volumes. After expressing the good aspects of the book, some of the formal and content weaknesses of the book have been enumerated. Some of the most important weaknesses are: not mentioning the names of many earlier and later works in the research background of this work. It was necessary to provide a relatively comprehensive definition of the idiomatic meaning of the words; for example, in this dictionary, the word "water" or "dream" is considered a mystical term, although the author in the entry "water" in eight lines only says the same thing: water alone does not have a Sufi and mystical meaning. The choice of entries has an unfavorable preference for terms or concepts. Also, many mystical interpretations have been explained mainly based on the views of Rumi and Hafez Shirazi. In this critique, we have tried from three axes: the style and arrangement of the book; content and explanatory contents, and the type of sources and their learning should be seen in the present dictionary.
Persian Language and Literature
Mehran Najafi Hajivar; Sajad Najafi Behzadi
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Ancient texts such as “Kelileh and Demneh” have a great place and importance among students due to their content and educational concepts. The linguistic structure (technical prose) and the stylistic feature of “Kelileh and Demneh” are such that most audiences have difficulty ...
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Ancient texts such as “Kelileh and Demneh” have a great place and importance among students due to their content and educational concepts. The linguistic structure (technical prose) and the stylistic feature of “Kelileh and Demneh” are such that most audiences have difficulty communicating with this work. The purpose of the present study is to review the book “Kelileh and Demneh” Sharh Hossein Haddad by Qadyani Publications. This book, which has been described and compiled based on the correction of Minavi and Hassanzadeh Amoli, in addition to its advantages and positive components, is not without its drawbacks. In this research, by using the method of content analysis and collecting information in the form of library documents, while criticizing and reviewing the book “Kelileh and Demneh” Sharh by Hossein Haddad, a comparison with other versions of Kelileh has been carried out, and the book has been reviewed from two perspectives: form and content. The results of the research showed that there are problems and content objections (in the field of vocabulary, Arabicization, allusions, etc.) in the above-mentioned description that should be considered in the new edition. The lack of attention of the commentator to the Arabic text of “Kelileh and Demneh”, contenting himself only with the old versions of the work, not referring to important sources in the field of Arabic and Persian dictionaries, dictionary of allusions, etc. caused such problems in the book.
Persian Language and Literature
Jamileh Akhyani
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The book "Poets of Khorasan Literary Field" is one of the literary excerpts written by Dr. Nasrollah Emami for a course of the same name in the undergraduate course of Persian literature. Given the author's background in academic excerpts, the reader expects a well-groomed book to increase students' ...
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The book "Poets of Khorasan Literary Field" is one of the literary excerpts written by Dr. Nasrollah Emami for a course of the same name in the undergraduate course of Persian literature. Given the author's background in academic excerpts, the reader expects a well-groomed book to increase students' enthusiasm for further study of one of the most important areas of Persian poetry, but this expectation is not met. In the present article, the most significant drawbacks of the mentioned book include: not so suitable notes for poems, incomplete selection of poems, incorrect explanations for some verses, changing the tastes of words from poems without any explanation about them, deleting some of the sources referred to in the book description, inadequate, inaccurate or unnecessary description, and editorial and writing flaws have been examined. By presenting these problems, the author hopes that the authors of academic literary excerpts will pay more attention to their writings and dress up the book from the mentioned problems in the subsequent editions.
Persian Language and Literature
ahmad behnami
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"The Analytical History of Persian Language", written by Homeira Zomordi, has been written for one of the courses in Persian language and literature. Has the author been successful in her goal of introducing students to the history of the Persian language? The author of this article has reviewed this ...
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"The Analytical History of Persian Language", written by Homeira Zomordi, has been written for one of the courses in Persian language and literature. Has the author been successful in her goal of introducing students to the history of the Persian language? The author of this article has reviewed this book. In this study, there are several shortcomings that can be enumerated as follows: many errors which can be seen in writing and some typographical errors, some of the historical information listed in the book is incorrect, lack of information which causes an incomplete understanding on the part of the reader, adequate sources have not been used in the writing of this book, the various sections of this book are taken from the research of the predecessors, and the author has not played much of a role in finding what he mentions.
Persian Language and Literature
Malek Shoaei
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The child's literature must teach the audience the best thoughts and the most ideal goals and concepts in a pleasant way. Poetry, as a part of child's literature, is a good tool for this purpose due to its listening pleasure and extraordinary capacity. This article has been compiled to express the content ...
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The child's literature must teach the audience the best thoughts and the most ideal goals and concepts in a pleasant way. Poetry, as a part of child's literature, is a good tool for this purpose due to its listening pleasure and extraordinary capacity. This article has been compiled to express the content and structural disorders of the poems of six Persian books in the elementary period. The study results show that the lyrics' theme is more a repetition of naturalism and epic regardless of the message. The presence of some authors in different foundations, repeated use of a poet's poems, repetition of themes, repetition in the format and music of poems, lack of attention to the different needs of students, writing flaws, lack of awareness of the overall development of the child, etc. are a set of factors described in this article. This applied research, using the descriptive-analytical method, examines the order of texts of elementary school textbooks. The content unit is context. The statistical population includes Persian books (read) from the first to the sixth grade of elementary school, and statistical samples are parts of Persian books from elementary school that are in the form of verse. The method of collecting information, documents and bookshops is a question that this research has raised in the idea of answering the problems of a part of the Persian book that explains the shortcomings.
Persian Language and Literature
Arash Amraei
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Divan of Kaqani has been famous among researchers and litterateurs for being difficult and rare since long ago; hence it has been noticed more by researchers and exegetes with respect to other classic Persian poets’ literature. Also, numerous exegeses have been written to the entire divan or to ...
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Divan of Kaqani has been famous among researchers and litterateurs for being difficult and rare since long ago; hence it has been noticed more by researchers and exegetes with respect to other classic Persian poets’ literature. Also, numerous exegeses have been written to the entire divan or to a portion of it. One of those exegeses interpreting a portion of this divan is a book named “ATASH ANDAR CHANG”. This book is written by Mahdi Mahouzi and is published by Zavvar publications in 340 pages. In this article, we are going to criticize this book in a scientific and critical way. Moreover, we will discuss subjects such as the haste in preparing and publishing this book, incorrect extracting, the introduction of irrelevant subjects, and the use of others’ works without making reference to them. In conclusion, we get the result that the book under debate is one of the weak and unscientific works and it is necessary to take action to amend the mentioned items.
Persian Language and Literature
Mohammad Reza Pashaei
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Proper understanding of the social and political situation and wise confrontation with it based on the Islamic standard system is one of the basic goals of the field of political and social education in the document of fundamental change. One of the main ways to achieve this field in the education system ...
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Proper understanding of the social and political situation and wise confrontation with it based on the Islamic standard system is one of the basic goals of the field of political and social education in the document of fundamental change. One of the main ways to achieve this field in the education system is through Persian textbooks, and the elementary school has an important place in shaping the individual and social personality of students. This research seeks to examine the position of this field in elementary school Persian books with the method of content analysis to show the level of attention to the components of political and social education. The statistical population is Persian books for the elementary school in the first to sixth grades. The findings of the research indicate that despite the emphasis of the Persian Book Writing Planning Council, the authors of Persian books have not paid attention to this area as much as they should, and some books, such as the first and second grades of elementary school, pay less attention to these areas per year. The final stages of this course are discussed more. The highest level of attention in six years was related to "acquaintance with national and religious historical heroes and respect for the national symbol" related to the field of political education with 37 cases and the lowest level of attention was related to the two components of "keeping other people's secrets" and "national, local and Global »has been in the field of social education with three cases.
Persian Language and Literature
Hashem Sadeghi Mohsenabad
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The present paper aims to critically analyze the book “An Exploration of the Sociology of Literature” written by Farhang Ershad. It was found that the book’s content is not reliable because of the lack of deep knowledge of literary terms, the mixing of literary theories and schools, ...
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The present paper aims to critically analyze the book “An Exploration of the Sociology of Literature” written by Farhang Ershad. It was found that the book’s content is not reliable because of the lack of deep knowledge of literary terms, the mixing of literary theories and schools, and the lack of adequate understanding of literary movements, styles, and types. This is especially true, given the fact that it is published as a textbook. For the above reasons, some of the sociologically-related literary theories and movements were disregarded. The works under study were not properly chosen because of the lack of a deep understanding of literary works. In some cases, the reasons for the discussion of the sociological issues in literature were not provided, and even some preliminary key literary questions, such as literary genres in the sociology of literature, remained unanswered. Different mistakes about literary issues indicated that the author has not benefited from literary advice in doing the research.
Persian Language and Literature
Fateme Jafarikamangar
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Syllabus of the subject as a guideline and determinant policy of each course plays an important role in achieving its goals and competencies. The “Creative writing” course is one of the general courses of Farhangian University at the aim of improving learners’ ability to write fluently ...
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Syllabus of the subject as a guideline and determinant policy of each course plays an important role in achieving its goals and competencies. The “Creative writing” course is one of the general courses of Farhangian University at the aim of improving learners’ ability to write fluently and creatively. This study criticizes the existing syllabus and emphasizes obviating shortcomings to achieve the objectives. it is believed with minor changes, especially in the budgeting of existing course contents and the emphasis on high levels of learning, and it is possible to increase learners’ ability to create creative writing genres and to increase writing creativity in general. The statistical population of this study is the student-teachers in the field of educational sciences, the entrance of 1397 in Farhangian University of Mazandaran. The samples are three homogenized groups from among the 9 groups of students in this field. This study is applicable, and it has compared two experimental groups trained with changes in the topic of the control group who was trained exactly according to the topic by incorporating quasi-experimental method. The results showed that the scores of the experimental group in both writing creative literary types and in each element of creativity were significantly improved compared to the control group by emphasizing the need for changes or revision on the existing syllabus.
Persian Language and Literature
Ghodsieh Rezvanian
Abstract
The book Sociological Research in Modern Persian Fiction is the translation of the book A Study of Recent Persian Prose Fiction with Special Reference to the Social Background written by Reza Navabpour, which is one of the most accurate books on the analysis of contemporary Iranian fiction. By the dialectic ...
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The book Sociological Research in Modern Persian Fiction is the translation of the book A Study of Recent Persian Prose Fiction with Special Reference to the Social Background written by Reza Navabpour, which is one of the most accurate books on the analysis of contemporary Iranian fiction. By the dialectic examination of literature and history, from the Constitution revolution to the 1979 revolution, the author has studied not only major historical events, but also micro-political events with a deep critical looking, and how they have Influenced fiction. Despite the socio-historical approach to contemporary fiction, relying on no sociological theory, but in the method of new historicism critics, it examines contemporary fiction in relation to heterogeneous and conflicting discourses and shows the implicit positions of the text in relation to those discourses. But the characteristics of the translation of the book by Abolghasem Serri; Including the inconsistency of the type of translation with the text and subject of the book, linguistic, structural and content nonchalance, misleading and unpleasant purism, which may inadvertently involve the reader in the language of the text, has led to an inaccurate translation.
Persian Language and Literature
Ali Soleimani; Mohammad Foladi
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Many lexicographers, commentators and correctors of Shahnameh have considered the words "Junagh" and "Junna" as one word and have used them instead of each other; However, paying attention to the contextual context, in-text cues, and a comprehensive look at the verses in which these two words appear, ...
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Many lexicographers, commentators and correctors of Shahnameh have considered the words "Junagh" and "Junna" as one word and have used them instead of each other; However, paying attention to the contextual context, in-text cues, and a comprehensive look at the verses in which these two words appear, indicate that in Shahnameh these two words are not one word but are two words with two different meanings. Although the main purpose of this study is to correct verses from the scientific-critical correction of Jalal Khaleghi Motlagh, the authors, referring to other corrections of Shahnameh such as: Moscow, Jules Moll, ancient letter and Azizullah Jovini Shahnameh, tried to show and eliminate the errors in these corrections. Through this study, it was concluded that the words "Jenagh" and "Jana" have the ability to associate with the words "Leopard (Palang)" and "Choob e Khadang", respectively, and not paying attention to the different meanings of these two words, their companion capacity and avoiding relying on the Florence version, Khaleghi Motlagh did not follow the right path in correcting two verses in which these two words appear. In this research, in addition to correcting those two verses, the problems found in other corrections of Shahnameh were also pointed out. Also, in line with the discussion, a verse of Barzunameh of Shamsuddin Mohammad Kosaj was corrected.
Persian Language and Literature
Maryam Sharifnasab
Abstract
The emergence of the genre of temperament in Iran by Ebrahim Tawfiq, Seyed Mehdi Yousefi, Hesam Turkman and Arash Heydari with good ideas tries to study and categorize the content about the temperament of Iranians from the constitutional period to the years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, ...
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The emergence of the genre of temperament in Iran by Ebrahim Tawfiq, Seyed Mehdi Yousefi, Hesam Turkman and Arash Heydari with good ideas tries to study and categorize the content about the temperament of Iranians from the constitutional period to the years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the elements and components of a "Extract the "genre" from it. This article has tried to study the book in four axes of form, language, structure and content through the documentary-critical method. The results of this study show that although the authors of the book have collected very extensive and accurate information from various sources and sometimes examined it, they have not been very successful in determining the boundaries of the "genre". Nevertheless, the content of the book is full of useful but scattered data. The authors' opinions on the subject, etc, have been reorganized and made more useful for the audience in this field.
Persian Language and Literature
mohammad Mahdi Moallemy; Seyed Ali Ghasemzadeh
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Ruh ol-Arwah fi Sharh Asma al-Mulk al-Fattah by Shahab al-Din Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn Mansour Sam'ani (487-534 AH) is the oldest independent work in Sharh Asma' Allah in Persian, which has had a direct impact on some literary and mystical works, including Kashf ol-Asrar Meybodi. The prose of this book ...
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Ruh ol-Arwah fi Sharh Asma al-Mulk al-Fattah by Shahab al-Din Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn Mansour Sam'ani (487-534 AH) is the oldest independent work in Sharh Asma' Allah in Persian, which has had a direct impact on some literary and mystical works, including Kashf ol-Asrar Meybodi. The prose of this book is fluent, smooth, and at the same time poetic, and sometimes it has used melodic or eloquent prose to express mystical concepts. This book is full of literary, lexical, linguistic and mystical benefits. Najib Mayel Heravi first published this book based on five manuscripts in Elmi va Farhangi publications in 1368, which has been reprinted several times. Unfortunately, this correction is not without its flaws, and there are many bugs in it. The present paper has tried to carefully confront the printed text with the corrected copies and to show some of the main drawbacks of this correction, including inclusions, misreadings, corrections and non-observance of the principle of fidelity in correcting texts. The result of this research indicates that due to the numerous problems that have arisen in the text of the Spirit of the Souls, it is necessary to correct it again.
Persian Language and Literature
Jamileh Akhyani
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Selection of excerpts from ancient texts and explanation of their difficulties in the form of academic excerpts for teaching in the field of Persian language and literature is one of the works that has increased in recent years. Accurately selecting parts of texts and explaining their difficulties can ...
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Selection of excerpts from ancient texts and explanation of their difficulties in the form of academic excerpts for teaching in the field of Persian language and literature is one of the works that has increased in recent years. Accurately selecting parts of texts and explaining their difficulties can help students better understand ancient texts and of course, the preparation of such books requires a great deal of expertise and a great deal of care and patience. Shahnameh's book (1) Shahriyar Namvarnameh published by Samt Publications is the result of the attention of prominent Shahnameh scholar Sajjad Aydenlo who has provided a well-deserved book for students. Despite the many benefits of this book including selecting three stories from the Shahnameh instead of one, arranging the contents of the book in a decent volume for one semester, designing important topics related to Ferdowsi and Shahnameh based on the latest Shahnameh researches and..., there are some shortcomings in its compilation that have been addressed in the present article. These deficiencies include the shortcomings of choosing the verses for the excerpts of the stories, the failures to explain and explain the verses, and the shortcomings of the version used in the excerpts, and the lack of explanation about them. The author hopes that by revising these shortcomings, this valuable book will become more disciplined.
Persian Language and Literature
Arash Amraei
Abstract
The complete poetical work of Khaghani (Khaghani’s Divan) is one of the worthy works of Persian literature that is famous for being difficult to obtain and understand. Thus, Khaghani's Divan has been less favored by commentators than other Divans of Persian poetry. In the meantime, the felicity ...
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The complete poetical work of Khaghani (Khaghani’s Divan) is one of the worthy works of Persian literature that is famous for being difficult to obtain and understand. Thus, Khaghani's Divan has been less favored by commentators than other Divans of Persian poetry. In the meantime, the felicity and excerpts have impeded Khaghani's Divan as well, and several excerpts from Khaghani's odes (qasidas) have been described and published. One of these works is a book entitled " Cities' Reciter of Elegies ", written by Mohammad Reza Barzegar Khaleghi and Mohammad Hussein Mohammadi and published by Zovvar Publications in 224 pages. The present paper reviews this work and also points to some of the falsehoods and inaccuracies that have been attributed to it. Problems that will be discussed in detail include using the works of others without citing them, silence against difficult and problematic Khaghani’s verses, misinterpretations of certain verses, confusing sources, many typographical errors, and omitting some aspects of Khaghani’s poetry.
Persian Language and Literature
Masoumeh Amirkhanlou
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The publication and textual criticism of Attar of Nishapur’s “Tazkerat al-Awliya”, which is considered as one of the most important texts in Persian prose, was done in 1398 by Dr. Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani. More than a century has passed since the first textual criticism of “Tazkerat ...
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The publication and textual criticism of Attar of Nishapur’s “Tazkerat al-Awliya”, which is considered as one of the most important texts in Persian prose, was done in 1398 by Dr. Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani. More than a century has passed since the first textual criticism of “Tazkerat al-Awliya” by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, but the new work that has been made is in many ways superior to the works of others; because the editor has largely provided a text close to Attar's language by dealing with multiple manuscripts and providing a textual criticism. In addition to this, it is necessary to mention the useful comments, the detailed introduction, and the acquisition of the main sources of the mystics' words in Tazkerat and their memoirs and cultures. The present article intends to point out some of the shortcomings and mistakes in the text of the book while pointing out the advantages and benefits of the new work. These shortcomings include typographical errors, incomplete or incorrect references, ambiguity in the method of textual criticism, structural and content confusion.
Persian Language and Literature
Milad Bigdeloo; Farzaneh Farahzad
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The book “Qesse-ye Solayman”, was written by Abu-Ya’qub Yusif ibn-e Ali ibn-e Omar-e Tabrizi, in the late 6th/early 7th century AH. This book has been edited critically by Alireza Imami and Ardowan Amiri-Nezhad and published by Oqāf-e Dr Afshar with Sokhan publication. The book suffers ...
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The book “Qesse-ye Solayman”, was written by Abu-Ya’qub Yusif ibn-e Ali ibn-e Omar-e Tabrizi, in the late 6th/early 7th century AH. This book has been edited critically by Alireza Imami and Ardowan Amiri-Nezhad and published by Oqāf-e Dr Afshar with Sokhan publication. The book suffers from some deficiencies with respect to textual criticism and writing. The study aimed at identifying and correcting the deficiencies of the editors’ work and correcting those items and parts overlooked by them. Also, an attempt was made to find the missing parts of the book, including the ones noticed by the editors and also the ones gone unnoticed by them. To achieve the aims of the study, other ancient Persian books were studied and compared to “Qesse-ye Solayman” and, in order to correct the deficiencies, the co-text and the context were also taken into consideration. In this study, a new word was also pinpointed in the book and its meaning was made clear by finding the word in two other books.
Persian Language and Literature
Mohammad Reza Pashaei; Saeed Ghasemi
Abstract
The subject of editing textbooks is a scientific perspective that can be pathologic and it is the title of this article. According to the title of the article, the purpose of this essay is the expression of some problems and shortcomings in the field of editing Persian textbooks of the High school as ...
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The subject of editing textbooks is a scientific perspective that can be pathologic and it is the title of this article. According to the title of the article, the purpose of this essay is the expression of some problems and shortcomings in the field of editing Persian textbooks of the High school as a statistical society. It is in structure, deductive reasoning, and the evidence has been used by the statistical sample method. Each year, the group of educational books reviews these books generally or partially, the exact review of the editorial team in the field of editing the textbooks is also highly felt. Therefore, some of the relevant issues were mentioned in three areas of editing, namely linguistic, content, and technical. We discussed the important issues which needed to be addressed by the editor in these books. The result of this research suggests that among the three editing areas mentioned in the editing books, most of the drawbacks are in the “technical editing” and these books need a comprehensive overview in this particular editorial area.
