The Importance and Necessity of Correcting Falaki Shirvani's Divan

 One of the valuable literary activities in the contemporary era is correcting the texts left by the predecessors. The Divan of Shervani, the poet of the sixth century (AD 540), is one of the texts from which has not yet received a proper revision.This is mainly because of the unavailability of a reliable manuscript, collected during or close to the poet's era. In addition, those who have attemplted to correct the available manuscripts, have not observed the proper critical methods of text correction. The existing version corrected by Taheri Shahab in 1345 AH suffers numerous methodological and typographical defects. In this study, while showing the main correction defects of the existing version, such as "improper recordings", "displacement of verses", "scattered poem lines " and "typographical errors", it tends to introduce the new versions and explain their role in correcting the poems of Shervani. The poems of this poet are discussed in order to highlight the necessity of re-correcting the Divan of  Falaki Shirvani, which, in addition to presenting a revised text of his poems, undoubtedly has a great impact on recognizing the stylistic features of Azerbaijani poetry and solving some problems of poems following this school .