Components of Didactic Genre in the Azhari Shirazi’s Resale-ye Kamal (Treaties of Perfection)
Subject Areas : شاهنامه
Fariba Chini
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Fatemeh Sadat Taheri
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1 - Ph.D. Student of Persian Language and Literature, Kashan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kashan, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Kashan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kashan, Iran (corresponding author)
Keywords: Didactic Teachings, Didactic Devices, Azhari Shirazi, Resale-ye Kamal (Treaties of Perfection),
Abstract :
Budaq Azhari Shirazi, an unknown poet of the tenth and eleventh centuries AH, has a poetic collection of 10,385 lines, which he called Resale-ye Kamal (Treaties of Perfection). The present article studies the didactic factors in Azhari’s poems. By using a descriptive-analytical method based on Azhari’s poems, the researchers also attempt to answer what didactic teachings are in Azhari’s Resale-ye Kamal and what methods did the poet use to explain them? Through answering this question, the researchers argue that praising the Prophet’s family and Imams, the eulogy of the Safavid sultans, virtual love, the description of life events, satire and sarcasm are the main themes of Azhari's poetry. Like many previous poets, the poet advises and teaches goodness (affirmative education) to his specific and general audience, or forbids them from ugliness and evil (negative education). He has done it sometimes independently and sometimes in the midst of other literary themes and forms. Azhari teaches his educations to the audience either in the direct or in the indirect ways which includes using the devices of storytelling, abstraction, allusion to Quran verses and stories, allegories and genomic verse, hymn, oath, complaint, redundancies, satire and fables.
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