A Critique of the Correction of Nizami's Khamseh by Basir Mozhdehi Compared with Corrections of Vahid Dastgerdi and Moscow

Until now we have been familiar with several corrections of Nizami’s Khamseh like Vahid Dastgerdi، Moscow، Servatian and Barat Zanjani but in recent years a new correction has been published by Samieh Basir Mozhdehi (reviewed by Baha al-Din Khoramshahi) whose first and second imprints were published by Dustan publishing in 1383 and 1388 respectively. Such correction has been done based on the so-called version of Sa’dloo (due to the fact that this version has been found in a family with the very name) which belongs to eight century (A. H) and via contrasting with versions of central library of Tehran University، Vahid Dastgerdi and Russian Academy of Science. The author thinks that her findings and understandings of the verses، using the most correct variants (in her view)، considering the rules of rhyme، styles of poetry، prosody and other rhetorical techniques، and using the version of Sa’dloo as the basis of her correction have altogether made her correction more authentic and closer to the main version of Nizami’s work. It should be mentioned that although this correction is recent and could apply the results of new sciences besides having access to two authentic versions of Vahid and Moscow to provide a better work than the predecessors’، it is unfortunately one of the corrections with most mistakes and problems. While indicating to some verses in this correction and comparing it with the versions of Vahid and Moscow (that the corrector has acknowledged her correction has been contrasted particularly with these two ones)، this research aims to show that such correction is not authentic. The important point is that، contrary to the words of author about paying attention to poetic styles and techniques، the reader finds out after close reading that unfortunately the corrector lacks sufficient knowledge about such rules and even the morphology and poetic space of Nizami.