Introducing the Sources of Persian Poems in Bidlisi’s Sharafnameh.

Sharafnameh is a historical, literary Persian prose text, and one of its prominent features is combining history with poetry. Bidlisi has used 554.5 lines of poetry in Sharafnameh while mentioning the poets of only 148 (26.69 %) lines. Thus, the poets of 406.5 (73.3%) lines of the Persian poems of Sharafnameh are unknown. This study aimed to identify the sources of these seventy-three percent and present the necessary documentation. The applied research method was descriptive-analytical. The data was collected using library and documentary research, analyzed using the content analysis method, and compared analytically with Bayhaqi's History and Nafsat al-Masdoor. One of the present study results is identifying and introducing the sources of 187 (33.72%) other lines of the Persian poems in Sharafnameh. Therefore, the number of lines of poetry with recognized sources reaches 335 (60.41%). Accordingly, the present study could introduce the unknown sources of 33.72% lines of poetry in Sharafnameh. The results also indicated that Sharaf Khan relied on divans and works of at least 44 poets to find these 355 lines. Therefore, the present study also pointed out the broadness of his readings and the richness of his resources.