By TT Culture Desk, *Iranian scholar correcting Bidel’s Divan* - Tehran Times - Tehran, IranSunday, October 4, 2009
Tehran: Iranian scholar Alireza Qazveh is working on correcting the works of the Persian poet and Sufi Abdul Qader Bidel, also known as Bidel Dehlavi.
He is reviewing and comparing 20 volumes of manuscripts of his Divan and several editions of his couplet collections to compile a completely revised book. His book will contain all the differences in published versions as well as some newly found couplets written by the poet, he mentioned in a press release by the Fars News Agency.
Bidel’s Divan was previously published in Iran with corrections by Akbar Behdarvand.
Bidel Dehlavi (1642–1720) was a famous Persian poet and Sufi born in Azimabad (present day Patna, India). He mainly wrote ghazals and quatrains in Persian and is the author of 16 books of poetry, which contain nearly 147,000 verses and include several of Masnavi.
He is considered as one of the prominent poets of the Indian School of Poetry in Persian literature, and has his own unique style
His books include Telesm-e Hairat, Chahar Unsur and Ruqaat.
Tehran: Iranian scholar Alireza Qazveh is working on correcting the works of the Persian poet and Sufi Abdul Qader Bidel, also known as Bidel Dehlavi.
He is reviewing and comparing 20 volumes of manuscripts of his Divan and several editions of his couplet collections to compile a completely revised book. His book will contain all the differences in published versions as well as some newly found couplets written by the poet, he mentioned in a press release by the Fars News Agency.
Bidel’s Divan was previously published in Iran with corrections by Akbar Behdarvand.
Bidel Dehlavi (1642–1720) was a famous Persian poet and Sufi born in Azimabad (present day Patna, India). He mainly wrote ghazals and quatrains in Persian and is the author of 16 books of poetry, which contain nearly 147,000 verses and include several of Masnavi.
He is considered as one of the prominent poets of the Indian School of Poetry in Persian literature, and has his own unique style
His books include Telesm-e Hairat, Chahar Unsur and Ruqaat.
Click here to Abdul Qader Bidel at Wiki
[Picture from the International Congress on Bidel Dehlavi recorded by the BBC]
Mirza Bidel (d. 1721 C.E.) wrote this quatrain:
ReplyDeleteTaa hamsabeq mezaaj toflaan nashavi
Aazaad ze qaid in dabestaan nashavi
Daanaa’i o aassuda deli khasm hamand
Ay mahv-e kherad mabaad naadaan nashavi
If a childlike nature you won’t get,
Free of the fetters of this school, you won’t get.
Learning and calmness are enemies of one another:
O, you die-hard intellectual, beware or unlearned you won’t get!