A Critique on Vahid Dastgerdi’s Commentary on Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin

Vahid Dastgerdi’s commentary on Nezami’s Panj Ganj is still one of the best editions and commentaries on Nezami’s works that is required by every reader or researcher. Of course, Dastgerdi’s recension of Nezami’s Panj Ganj and other scholars’ editions and explanations of this work, such as Behrouz Sarvatian’s and Barat Zanjani’s, still need new corrections and more explanations. Furthermore, those commentaries written on Panj Ganj need to be critiqued and evaluated. In this study, some of Vahid Dastgerdi’s commentaries on Khosrow and Shirin edition were evaluated and criticized and also some of the mistakes of this recension were corrected. Accordingly, in this study, the inadequate interpretations of Khosrow and Shirin by Vahid Dastgerdi's commentary have been divided and analyzed into the following categories: a) misinterpretations of a complete verse; b) literal explanations of verses; c) misinterpretations of linguistic compounds; d) incorrect interpretations of the words; and e) inadequate interpretations due to misunderstandings of rhetorical devices.