Namaeh Farhangistan

Namaeh Farhangistan

A Study of the Content and Stylistic Elements of the Manuscript of Sharḥ-e Makhzan al-Asrār by Qāẓī Ibrāhīm Tattawī

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Fatemeh Koupā (Corresponding Author) 1
Mehri Yaghūbī 2
1 Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Tehran, Iran
2 PhD Graduate in Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/nf.2025.543676.1455
Abstract
Sharḥ-e Makhzan al-Asrār, authored by Ibrāhīm Tattawī, a scholar and judge of the Indian subcontinent in the eleventh century AH, is one of the commentaries written on Nezami Ganjavi’s Makhzan al-Asrār. Due to the author’s mastery of various disciplines-including Qur’anic verses, hadith, mysticism, botany, zoology, medicine, philosophy, astronomy, music, lexicography, grammar, and literary arts-and his attention to the subtleties of the verses in this masnavi, this commentary is a scholarly work. Composed in 1037 AH, it draws on sources such as Ṣarāḥ, Qāmūs, Farhang-e Ibrāhīmī, Sharafnāma, and Toḥfat al-Saʿādat.
This study, employing a source-critical and descriptive-analytical methodology, provides a brief introduction to Qāẓī Ibrāhīm Tattawī and presents the Sharḥ-e Makhzan al-Asrār along with its stylistic characteristics. Findings indicate that the work’s linguistic features include a high density of Arabic words, phrases, and sentences-reflecting the commentator’s Arabic influence-use of parenthetical sentences, rearrangement of sentence components, and long adjectival and genitive constructions.
Keywords
Commentary
Makhzan al-Asrār
Ibrāhīm Tattawī
Content and Stylistic Features
Nezami Ganjavi

Subjects

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Namaeh Farhangistan
Volume 24, Issue 3 - Serial Number 97
Nameh Farhangestan (Subcontinent)
July and August 2025
Pages 103-117

  • Receive Date 22 April 2023
  • Revise Date 06 May 2023
  • Accept Date 06 April 2025