A study of Newly-attributed Verses to Rudaki Samarghandi in Halimi’s Dictionary (Sharh Bahr al-Gharraib)

Abstract

In the vast field of Persian literature, prominent figures such as Mirzayev, Braginsky and Saeed Nafisi, before the other scholars, outshone others in research on the poems of Rudaki, the father of Persian poetry. It was the invaluable efforts made by these magnanimous researchers in collecting Rudaki’s poetries that paved the way for further investigations. Considering some of Rudaki’s verses that are exemplified in dictionaries and the fact that some of these dictionaries have remained unnoticed by researchers and also taking into account the existence of new verses, various written forms, and attribution of some of his verses to other poets and vice versa, in this research we study one such dictionary under the title of Sharh Bahr al-Gharraib or Loqat Halimi. The writers have found a more complete text than the one applied by Nafisi through two manuscripts of this dictionary. In this research, the attribution of some verses to this poet has been studied with presentation of several findings.

Keywords

• Dictionaries
• Loqat Halimi
• Rudaki
• New Verses
• Attributions