The Unknown Praised Character in Khaqanis Works and an Important Point about the Version of his Divan in British Museum

There has not yet accomplished a comprehensive research on the details of Khāqānī's life incidents and his relationship with the courts of the kings and the lords ruled during his period, so a very vague image has remained of the faces of his praised ones. It would be undoubtedly impossible to get a minute understanding of the poems of this great poet of 12th century or even to try to correct them carefully and academically without suitable information on his time situation, historical points on his works and realizing the identity of his praised characters. One of Khāqānī's celebrated poems is a ballad with the word “namāyad” as its rhyme which can be briefly called “namāyad ballad” or Shāhed-e-jān (the soul-mate). Who is the one has been admired in this ballad? There is a fierce controversy between the experts and of course the manuscript versions of Khāqānī's Divān about the quantity and the identity of the admirer(s). We are going, in present paper, to make this historical ambiguity clear via existing historical documents and taking the analysis of contemporary Khāqānī experts in to consideration. Additionally, it would be proved that the above mentioned ambiguity and the controversies surrounded the praised character in this ballad are all the result of a fundamental problem in the version of Khāqānī's Divān available in British Museum (on which Sadjadi had edited).