Self-annotationA reflection on the self-annotations of the Mahdi Akhavan Sales

Text annotation has been one of the scientific and literary traditions of Muslims. Annotation has long been a common method in the development of scientific and literary thought in the field of Iranian culture, both by the author himself and by the author's students or critics. Text annotation accelerated from the eighth century AH and in the Qajar era, annotation on jurisprudential texts became common in seminaries. Annotation on contemporary poetry is a strange and uncommon practice that has little history in contemporary Persian literature. Mehdi Akhavan Sales is a prolific and rare poet in this field due to his talent, vast studies, upbringing in the cultural sphere (domain) of Khorasan and familiarity with Persian and Arabic literary texts. He has written various, humorous, informative and delicate Annotations on his poetry. According to this research, the main reason for this is to demystify. This research has been done by an analytical-descriptive method and seeks to find the reasons for the excessive tendency of Mehdi Akhavan Sales to the tradition of self-annotation.