An Explanation on Manazir al-Insha Manuscript of Library of the University of Istanbul, Turkey

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Jamil Jafarie ¹ , Aziz Naseri ²

1 - Assistant Professor in Arabic Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
2 - M.A Student in Persian Langauge and Literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

Received: 2013-01-03 Accepted : 2013-02-18 Published : 2012-05-21

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Abstract :

Manazir al-Insha is a book written in 9th century (A.H.) by Imad al- Din Mahmoud Gawan on letter-writing and composition in order to teach lettering methods with a simple and unambiguous diction. The corrected 308-page copy of this work was published in 2012 by academy of Persian language and literature. An explanation on this book was presented by Nali (a well-known Kurdish poet) which is now preserved in the library of Istanbul University. The features of this manuscript will be covered in this essay including the formal features such as: author, commentator, classification, style, annotation, date of writing and explanation, the beginning and the  end,  and the number of lines and pages. Also, the content features such as topics of rhetoric and letter writing, differences between this manuscript with the published copy of Manazir al-Insha and its writing style will be discussed in this paper. Finally, the names of those poets whose poems were quoted in this book were studied.