The Analysis of Some Couplets from Khaqani Shirwan’s Diwān Along With the Review of Earlier interpretations

Summery: Khaqani Shirwani is one of the biggest and the most especial poets of Persian language. One of his specialties is the complication and intricacy of his poems. The proof for difficulty of his poems is the existence of many earlier interpretations like Shadi Abdi and Maamoori and later well-known interpretations. To understand Khaqani Shirvani poems one shall need complete dominance on antique sciences (Astronomy, medicine, history and mythology, Quran and Hadis), art of rhetoric, and sociology of the work which obliviousness of these could mislead the readers. In this article couplets that from the opinions of authors have been misinterpreted because of the aforementioned reasons are reanalyzed and finally for each couplet the meaning which seems right based on the intertextual, extratextual, and paratextual reasons is given. Also in the end is focused on the pronunciation of a geographical word (Abhar) which until now has stayed out of attention.