social customs and traditions in Iranian branch of Safavid era poetry

Subject Areas : Comparative Literature Studies

nasrin rezazadeh ¹ , maryam mohammadzadeh ² , ramin sadeghinejad ³

1 - Department of persian language and literature, Ahar branch, Islamic Azad University، Ahar- Iran
2 - Department of persian language and literature, Ahar branch, Islamic Azad University، Ahar- Iran
3 - Department of persian language and literature, Ahar branch, Islamic Azad University، Ahar- Iran

Received: 2020-01-27 Accepted : 2020-01-27 Published : 2019-05-22

Keywords: Safavid era, Saeb, social customs and traditions, Kalim-e-Kashani, Mohtasham-e-Kashani, Naziri-e-Neishabouri, Vhshi-e-Bafghi,

Abstract :

    Regarding the fact that in analyzing the poems of great poets in Safavid era, a type of generative sociology is felt like any other era, and considering that the recognition and analysis of literary works and gaining knowledge about the life of the authors who have created such works is not possible without investigating the society and culture through which they have been brought up, the present research, aimed at investigating about social status of the era and knowing the general public lifestyles, is going to investigate different social ethics and customs in Iranian branch of Safavid era (the poems composed by Vahshi-e-Bafghi, Mohtasham Kashani, Naziri-e-Neishabouri, Kalim-e-Kashani, and Saeb). In this era, different issues such as the different traditions to celebrate the New year, wedding ceremonies, mourning, drinking alcohol, and other customs such as tipping, holding babies in cradle, fastening the letters onto the wings of pigeons, bottling the fairies and wearing something onto the arms were among the most frequent mentions in the Divan composed by Saeb.In Bafqi's poems, there­ is the least mention of social  customs