Abstract
Maktabī Shīrāzī was a Persian poet living at the end of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth century. He is the most famous imitator (Nazīrah Navīs) of Nizamī's Laylī and ...
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Maktabī Shīrāzī was a Persian poet living at the end of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth century. He is the most famous imitator (Nazīrah Navīs) of Nizamī's Laylī and Majnūn. His work is outstanding because, compared to Nizāmī himself and other imitators of Nizāmī, his characterization and presentation of pure love (Azrā love) is unique. According to the famous Hadith of our prophet, pure love (Ishq-e Azrā) has three main features: 1. A pure and chaste love without any sensual desire, 2. Keeping hidden the secret of love, 3. The death of lovers in the way of love. Other features include: intensification of love in the course of time, efforts to see the beloved even at the cost of losing one's life, obstacles, extremity of amorous passion, helpers, scolds, jealous people, lover's resistance to others' advice, love driving lovers into madness, and eventually the death of the lover and beloved. In addition to what was mentioned above, pure love in Maktabī's narration has other unique features such as innate love within the lover and beloved, intolerance towards the rival, the affinity between pure(Azrā) love and true and cosmic love.
Keywords: pure love (Ishq-e Azrā), Laylī and Majnūn, Maktabī
