A newly discovered treasure from an anonymous poet (Newly discovered poems of Hakim Tartari, Persian language poet of the sixth century AH)

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Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Bojnord. Bojnord. Iran

Abstract

Mowaffaq al-Din Yahya ibn Hassan Tartari is one of the anonymous poets and Persian speakers of the fifth and sixth centuries AH. In the researches related to the history of Persian literature that have been written in the last one hundred and fifty years, there is no name or address of him. It seems that Taqiyya al-Din Uhudi Blyani (973-1040 AH) first mentioned him, about five hundred years after Tartari's life. A manuscript has now been found that is the oldest and most important document on Tartari and contains part of his poems. This manuscript, which is kept in the Sulaimaniyah Library in Istanbul, was written between 687 and 688 AH and has considerable information about Tartari, his poems and praises. In this article, we try to provide new points about the name and logo, the praises and the style and context of Tartari poems by quoting this newly written manuscript and reviewing historical and literary sources. Also, the few remaining poems by him have been read and corrected to be used by researchers for leading researches on the history of Persian literature and Khorasani style.

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Classical Persian Literature
Volume 14, Issue 1 - Serial Number 36
Spring & Summer
August 2023
Pages 339-372

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