A critique of A'rafat ul-A'sheqin's Adaptations of the Javaher ul-A'jayeb

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Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.
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Javaher ul-A'jayeb (written 962-963 AH) is the first Tazkeres of women poet which Fakhri Heravi has recorded the biographies of 31 women poet in it and most of author of Tazkeres who have introduced women poet, adapted from the contents of Javaher ul-A'jayeb that one of these Tazkeres is A'rafat ul-A'sheghin (written 1022-1024 AH) by Owhadi Balayani. Owhadi has taken biographies of 18 women poet from Javaher ul-A'jayeb and has pointed to own source in 14 cases, but has been negligent and wrong in this quote and adaptaion; As sometimes he has been wrong in recording the title of some poet’s biographies; sometimes he has been wrong mentioning information about some women poets and sometimes has been hesitated and wrong in attributing the verses of some women poets. in addition to Owhadi, correctors of A'rafat ul-A'sheghin also sometimes have replaced mistakenly recordings with correct recordings of main manuscript with using recent sources or deductive correction. in four main sections this article, been investigated the most important Owhadi's manipulations and mistakes in adaptation from content of Javaher ul-A'jayeb in with matching the source and destinations text and in the end too is mentioned to number of wrong choices of the correctors of A'rafat ul-A'sheghin.

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