A Critique of Nameyeh Bastan (The criticism of some verses in Nameyeh Bastan)

Abstract

Nameyeh Bastan is the most comprehensive commentary of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh in which Mir Jalaledin Kazazi has tried to disambiguate the meaning of ambiguous verses besides morphological, etymological, mythological, stylistic and aesthetic issues. On the other hand, this work is an edited text that is, the author has tried to provide a comparative commentary on the basis of commentaries by other writers such as Khaleghi Motlagh, Moscow, Jul Mol, Kolaleyeh Khavar, Dabir Siaghi and Joveini, and select the verses in a more Ferdowsian manner. Of course, in a number of cases, the author has rejected the mentioned commentaries and he himself added a word to the text on the basis of some justifications. Since this work is taught in MA and even PhD courses of some universities or is used as an auxiliary source by post graduate students, the authors of this article aim to represent some shortcomings of such a great work and disambiguate some confusing verses in order that they are more usable for researchers of Shahnameh.

Keywords

• Shahnameh
• Nameyeh Bastan
• Mir Jalaledin Kazazi
• Critique