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Book/Printed Material Dīvān-i Mullā Raḥmat Badakhshānī / / ديوان ملا رحمت بدخشانى /

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Title

  • Dīvān-i Mullā Raḥmat Badakhshānī

Other Title

  • /
  • ديوان ملا رحمت بدخشانى /

Summary

  • Collected works of a classical Afghan poet, first published during the reign of Ḥabīb Allah Khān, Amir of Afghanistan, during late 19th century.
  • Divan-i Mullah Rahmat Badakhshani (The collected works of Mullah Rahmat Badakhshani) is a divan of Khwaja Rahmat Ullah Badakhshani, a late-19th-century poet from Badakhshan, Afghanistan. The book's main section includes several forms of ghazal (lyric) poetry. They include ghazal-e char dar char (ghazals in four by four), ghazal-e ka tama-e huruf ash hech nuqta nadara (ghazal poems where the words have no diacritical marks), and ghazal-e laf-o nashr-e muratab (a form in which the subject of the poem appears in the first lines and is then described in detail in the rest of the poem). Some other forms appear in the supplementary section, pages 103-11, such as musalas ghazals (with three-line rhythms), mutazad ghazal (where the verses can take opposite meanings), and rubai (quatrain) poems. The author's pen name, Rahmat, often appears at the end of each stanza. The section also includes some prose, in which the author talks about an imaginary garden, gardening, and different flowers that "look like paradise." Rahmat explains that this special garden does not exist in known places. The last few pages contain information about the poet and his family. His father Mirza Ismail appears to have been a state official and the family was khwaja'zada (descended from Muhammad). Rahmat seems to have been a literary servant or courtier of the local rulers in Qaţaghan, the political center of northeast Afghanistan, but the biographical section is incomplete; the last two pages are missing from this copy. These pages would have clarified for readers that Emir Abdur Rahman Khan, the ruler of Afghanistan, had ordered Crown Prince Sardar Habibullah Khan to collect and publish the works of Rahmat. Matba-e dar al-Sultanah-e Kabul, the Royal Printing Press of Kabul, published the book by lithography in 1894. The pages are numbered, and on page 112 a red-colored hand-written verse by an anonymous author reads: "I provide/write this book for three reasons; do not politicize, misuse, or hide it." World Digital Library.

Names

  • Badakhshānī, Raḥmat, active 1894
  • Muḥammadzāʼī, Gul Muḥammad

Created / Published

  • Kābul : Dar Maṭbaʻ-i Dār al-Salṭanah-i Kābul ṭabʻ shud, 1312 [1894 or 1895]

Headings

  • -  Afghanistan

Notes

  • -  "Ḥasb al-amr-i bandagān-i ʻālī-i mutaʻālī Sardār Ḥabīb Allāh Khān khalaf-i arshad shahriyārī-i vālā Amīr ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Khān khuld-i Allāh al-mamlakah va sulṭānah"--T.p.
  • -  Lithograph.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  In Persian.
  • -  Acquire for LC only.

Medium

  • 112 pages ; 25 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PK6561 .B25 1894

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2002362445

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Persian Language Manuscript Project are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Badakhshānī, Raḥmat, Active 1894, and Gul Muḥammad Muḥammadzāʼī. Dīvān-i Mullā Raḥmat Badakhshānī. [Kābul: Dar Maṭbaʻ-i Dār al-Salṭanah-i Kābul ṭabʻ shud, 1894 or 1895, 1894] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002362445/.

APA citation style:

Badakhshānī, R. & Muḥammadzāʼī, G. M. (1894) Dīvān-i Mullā Raḥmat Badakhshānī. [Kābul: Dar Maṭbaʻ-i Dār al-Salṭanah-i Kābul ṭabʻ shud, 1894 or 1895] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002362445/.

MLA citation style:

Badakhshānī, Raḥmat, Active 1894, and Gul Muḥammad Muḥammadzāʼī. Dīvān-i Mullā Raḥmat Badakhshānī. [Kābul: Dar Maṭbaʻ-i Dār al-Salṭanah-i Kābul ṭabʻ shud, 1894 or 1895, 1894] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2002362445/>.