Ghadiriyye-ye Q?zi Nez?m al-Din Esfahani (emendation, analysis, expounding and translating)

After a brief introduction about the life and works of Qāzi Nezām al-Din, the 7th/ 11th-century bilingual poet of Esfahan, the authors have presented his Nuniyye qasideh (an ode with the letter “nūn” [n] as the final sound of its rhyme), in praise of Imam Ali; and by virtue of his manuscript works and on the basis of the established techniques of redacting manuscripts, they have examined the differences of these MSS. Then, they have analyzed the structure of the qasideh, expounding and translating its distiches one by one. A very important conclusion of this study, which has been conducted through a descriptive-analytical approach, is that, in this poem, Qāzi Nezām al-Din appears as a Shi’i scholar, relating eulogies of Imam Ali that can be found only in Shi’i sources.