Document Type : short article

Author

• Reza Refaee Ghadimi Mashhad

Assistant professor of persian language and literature- university of Bojnurd

Abstract

Khosrow and Shirin, as one of the masterpieces of Nizami Ganjavi, is distinguished both for its refined poetic language and for its rich imagery; for this reason, it has repeatedly been explicated by numerous scholars and commentators. Despite these extensive efforts, some verses of this masnavi still present semantic and imagistic ambiguities. The present study examines and reinterprets one of the controversial and much-disputed verses of Khosrow and Shirin. The verse in question, describing Shirin and her attendants strolling in the plain of Anjerak, reads:

در آن مینوی میناگون چمیدند فلک را رشته در مینا کشیدند

Previous commentators have offered widely divergent interpretations of this verse, such that almost no two explanations fully coincide. This study first surveys these differing interpretations and their points of disagreement. It then proposes a new reading based on contextual and textual evidence, grounding the phrase “reshte keshidan” in its technical meaning within the art of enameling. By considering the semantic multiplicity of this expression and the overlap between the celestial (Falak) and artistic (enamel) imagistic fields, the study argues that probably,Nizami deliberately employed a technical term from enameling to construct a layered metaphor. In this interpretation, the earth—likened to an enameled surface—is adorned by the luminous presence of Shirin and her companions, who function metaphorically as delicate silver filaments embellishing the enamel, thereby establishing a poetic counterpoint between earth and sky.

Keywords

• Nizami Ganjavi
• Khosrow and Shirin
• textual analyzing, textual interpretation
• verse interpretation

Main Subjects

• متون غنایی