205 New Quatrains

By TE/HGH, *New Sanai quatrains found* - Press TV - Tehran, Iran
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Iranian editor Seyyed-Ali Mirafzali has found a collection of 205 new quatrains composed by the 12th-century Sufi Persian poet, Sanai Ghaznavi.

“I edited Sanai quatrains based on 25 manuscripts and after the work was finished I realized that some 205 of his quatrains had not been published so far,” Mirafzali told Mehr News Agency.

The 41-year-old editor claims his edition to be the most complete and accurate compared to the ones published so far. “The new edition is composed of 740 quatrains, including the newly found compositions, which make it more complete than the one edited by Mohammad-Taqi Modarres-Razavi and known as the most complete edition published so far,” he explained.

Mirafzali said the new quatrains were edited in consultation with Iranian poet and literary critic Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani and will be published along with the rest of the quatrains in the near future.

Sanai is best-known for using various verse forms including ode, sonnet and rhymed couplet to express different aspects of Sufism.

Sanai inspired many great Persian poets who lived after him such as Mowlavi, Attar ad Nezami.

The Walled Garden of Truth is Sanai's best-known work which contains 10,000 couplets.