Frontispiece of an early copy of Ahli Shirazi's divan. Created in Safavid Iran and dated 1581-82, this copy was written within 50 years of Ahli Shirazi's death. The particularly fine illumination of this frontispiece suggests that this copy was created for a princely patron

Ahli Shirazi (Persian: اهلی شیرازی ), full name Muhammad ibn Yusuf Ahli Shirazi,[1] was a Persian poet who lived in Shiraz, Iran from 858 to 942H (circa 1454-1535).[2][3] He is buried in Hafezieh.

It is said that his life style was retiring, he faced poverty, and his life was filled with struggle.

Ahli Shirazi excelled especially in elaborately ingenious word plays (tajnisat) and other rhetorical devices. His works include ghazals, qasidas, robais (quatrains), and other types. One ornamental ode imitates a famous rhetorical piece by Salman Savaji and was judged more successful than Salman's original; but Lotf Ali Beg commented that such rhetorical devices are not the stuff of which true poetry is made. Of Ahli's masnavis an allegory on love entitled Šam o parvane (completed in 1489) is interesting for its treatment not only of the standard suffering of the lover (moth), but also of the affection that the beloved (candle) develops for the suffering lover, only for the two to be parted by "cruel fate" through the agency of the wind.

References

  1. ^ Rūdakī, Abū ‘Abdallāh; Fattoev, S.; Sharifov, J.; Vorob‘eva, S.; Khayyam, Omar; FitzGerald, Edward; Szyk, Arthur; Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn; Shāh, Salāh al Dīn Mīr (2014-03-27). "Classical Persian Poetry - A Thousand Years of the Persian Book | Exhibitions (Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  2. ^ "AHLĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ". Encyclopedia Iranica. 28 July 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  3. ^ Alam, Muzaffar; Alam, Professor Department of South Asian Languages and Civilization Muzaffar; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay; Subrahmanyam, Professor Department of History Centre for India and South Asia Sanjay (February 2007). Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-521-78041-4.

Sources

External links

Browne, E. G. A Literary History of Persia, IV 233.

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