Abstract
The cultural and literary ties between Iran and India have been a firm and undeniable one and have endured vicissitudes. This connection reached its height at Safavid and Gurkani age ...
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The cultural and literary ties between Iran and India have been a firm and undeniable one and have endured vicissitudes. This connection reached its height at Safavid and Gurkani age as the resultant poetry and literature of this age reflect it truly. Saib Tabrizi’s Poetry stands the highest in this age and has artistically portrayed the mutual cultural and literary relationship between the two nations so that the Iranian-Indian mixture of culture and literature is one of its most obvious characteristics; good reception of Persian pieces written by Indian poets, use of Indian literary traditions, exploiting literary language of Indian poets writing in Farsi, incorporation of Indian love poems, and finally the reflection of Indian culture, beliefs, and ceremonies are all obvious instances of cultural and literary affinity between Iran and India as expressed Saib Tabrizi’s poetry making his poem inapprehensible without a good knowledge of these points. Through investigating Saib Tabrizi’s divan and focusing on, analyzing and classifying the relevant poems and exploiting the researches in this domain, the researcher has tried in this paper to pinpoint Indian culture and literature in Saib Tabrizi’s poetry and thus to open a way to his verse’s mysterious world.
Key Words: Literature, Iran, India, Poetry, Saib Tabrizi, Culture, India