CRITICAL CORRECTION OF DIVAN "MAZHAR KHOYEE" AND EXAMINATION OF ITS STYLISTIC FEATURES

Abstract

Abbas Qoli Khan alias Mazhar is one of the tasteful poets of the thirteenth century. He is a native of Khoy, one of the cities of West Azerbaijan, who moved to Tehran when he was young. Mazhar is a Shiite poet and one of the followers of Haj Mirza Baba Zahabi (Raz Shirazi) from the Zahabi dynasty. His divan consists of poetic forms such as ghazal, masnavi, ode, piece and quatrain. His romantic lyric poems are full of mystical themes and terms that have been composed following Saadi and Hafez. In the poem, like other followers of the style of returning, he paid attention to Manouchehri, Ansari and Khaghani. Some of his poems are in praise of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and Imam Ali, and some are in praise of the great men of the Qajar court, including Nasser al-Din Shah, Muzaffar al-Din Shah, Prince Abdul Baqi, Heshmat al-Dawla and Prince Heshmat al-Dawla. He also has poems in praise of the famous novelist Mohammad Baqer Khosravi. The present article has been written using the library method and based on the lithographic version of the poet's divan, which is the complete and most regular version available in the library of the Documents Organization and the National Library of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Using the available hints, while introducing the poet, the author examines the mentioned version, the themes and coordinates of the poem. The results of the research indicate that he is the embodiment of the average poets of the Qajar period. His poetic language is fluent, and the weights of his poetry fit well with the concepts and themes of his poems. The abundance of mystical terms indicates the mystical spirit of his sonnets, and his poems are generally difficult and full of literary and Islamic and Iranian allusions.