Investigating some Errors in Aghraz Al-Seyasah by emphasizing a Newly-discovered Manuscript

The words in the Persian literary texts have been distorted because of various reasons such as multiple duplications, different orthographies, and illegible manuscripts. The works of a writer or a poet and his/her stylistic attributes, Divans (collections) of other poets, in addition to different manuscripts of a work can have effective roles in their corrections. Aghraz Al-Seyasah Fi A'araz Al-Reyasah written by Zahiri Samarghandi is also among books which have been distorted over time. Jaafar Sheảr by using four manuscripts (one in written, and three in pictorial formats) of Aghraz Al-Seyasah, without taking advantage of all of them, has corrected and published the printed version of the book for the first time in 1349 (AH). Negligence in using the written version in the correction and trusteeship towards pictorial versions of Aghraz Al-Seyasah, hastiness in correction and weaknesses in typesetting have yielded some errors in the book. In the present paper, the authors, by studying the available manuscripts of Aghraz Al-Seyasah Fi A'araz Al-Reyasah, particularly the newly-discovered manuscript in the library of Khangah-e Ahmadi (Shiraz) and referring to other works written by Zahiri Samarghandi (including Sandbad nameh and Ghorrat–al-Alfaz) and Divans of the other poets, have tried to analyze and correct some distortions and falsification errors in the published text of Aghraz Al-Seyasah.