Introducing Ebne Pasha's Negarestan: An Unknown Imitation of Saadi's Golaestan

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Ahmadreza Yalameha ¹

1 - Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan branch

Received: 2011-09-25 Accepted : 2011-11-23 Published : 2011-11-22

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Abstract :

Shamsedin Ahmad Ebne Soleyman Roomi known as Ebne Pasha or Kamal Pasha was a poet, historian and writer of 10th century in the realm of Ottoman Empire. He was hardworking author writing texts in Turkey, Farsi, and Arabic languages. His texts deliberate on subjects like history, literature, grammar, linguistics, speech, Islamic jurisprudence, as well as several dissertations. Some of his works have been published; however, most of them are neglected in the word libraries in manuscript copy forms. One of the precious and unknown works of Kamal Pasha that is an imitation of Saadi's Golestan is Newgarestan in the form of prose and verse. This literary work hasn’t been introduced and published yet. The present paper tries first of all to introduce this work completely and then to explain briefly six newly found manuscript copies which are being kept in different libraries of Iran.