Taha Saderi; Asadollah Vahed
Abstract
From among the works attributed to Attār, nine are said to be certainly his, and Mukhtārnāmah is one of them. Although Attār was a great poet and mystic with a style of his own, ...
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From among the works attributed to Attār, nine are said to be certainly his, and Mukhtārnāmah is one of them. Although Attār was a great poet and mystic with a style of his own, his poetry and prose indicate traces of his predecessors. In quatrains of Mukhtārnāmah for example, traces of Sanāyī's and Khayyām's works as well as other mystic poems written before the sixth century can be found. Apart from the language, even the theme gets close to what we see in Khayyām's authentic quatrains, especially in the forty forth chapter of Mukhtārnāmah. The content too, gets close to Khayyām when subjects such as complaining of self, people, world, life affairs, and memento mori are touched. In this article, researchers have studied nine common quatrains of Umar Khayyām and Farīd-ud Dīn-e Attār which belong to Attār but are Khayyamic in style. After a codicological, stylistic and thematic analysis of each quatrain, researchers concluded that Attār, rather than Khayyām, is the one who authored them.
Keywords: Khayyām , Attār , quatrain , codicology , stylistics
