Poetry
Taʻviz al-oshiqin
Not translated into English
Muhammad Rizo Ogahiy · 1864
Synopsis
A collection arranged according to the old order of the divan: the ghazals first, by far the most numerous, then the five-line stanzas, the quatrains, the odes, the riddles and the chronogram pieces. Love governs almost everything there, the absent beloved, separation, fidelity to the point of sacrifice, and the same lament serves for a woman and for God. Other pieces deal with morality and public life, or describe nature. An entire section is composed in Persian.
Context
The collection was put together in the last years of its author, and it has come down to us complete. It comprises about eighteen thousand lines of verse, of which some one thousand three hundred are in Persian, grouped in a separate section: four hundred and seventy ghazals, eighty-nine pieces in quintains, eighty quatrains, nineteen odes and twenty chronograms, among other forms. The manuscripts are held in Uzbekistan, Russia and Tajikistan. The book had been printed twice before the 2023 edition, which was completed with the pieces that the earlier ones lacked.
Who it is for
In Chagatai, and with no French version of the collection. It is worth knowing that a divan is read in separate pieces rather than from beginning to end, and that the ghazal names the beloved and God with the same words.
Prizes and reception
He is placed, by the scale of his work, closest to Navoi, and a school of creative arts bears his name in Khiva.
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