The role of Additional Resources in Textual criticism relying on the Role of Vali-name in Editting of Tazkerat al-oliya

• Main Author: Mojtaba Mojarrad
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: University of Isfahan 2018-09-01
• Series: Textual Criticism of Persian Literature
• Subjects: Vali-name; Allaf; Tazkerat al-oliya; Textual Criticism
• Online Access: http://rpll.ui.ac.ir/article_22691_efb874dd1ad1f7e7fbd63eea0ed70056.pdf

One of the main areas in textual criticism is the use of additional sources. Additional resources is a set of resources that is related to the edited text from of historical, content, structural, and consequential aspects. Attar’s Tazkerat al-oliya, as a reference text in the tradition of Iranian Sufism, always attracted the attention of future generation and the elected and various translations of this text confirms this claim. Vali-name is a poem that was written in the first half of the ninth century AD, in Shiraz. This book is a poetic translation of Attar’s Tazkerat al-oliya. Vali-name, in addition to literary and artistic aspects, is important also from the textual point of view, because its author probably has access to original manuscripts of Tazkerat al-oliya. In this paper, apart from explaining the features of this book, we analyzed its important role in the editing of Tazkerat al-oliya.