Mahsa Rezaei; Najmeh Dorry; Saeed Bozorg Bigdeli
Volume 11, Issue 2 , May 2022, , Pages 115-133
Abstract
A pseudonym or poetic name is one of the characteristics of Persian poetry that became common as a literary tradition from the sixth century onwards and stabilized in the poetry of ...
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A pseudonym or poetic name is one of the characteristics of Persian poetry that became common as a literary tradition from the sixth century onwards and stabilized in the poetry of seventh century poets. Poets such as Sanai, Khaghani and Anvari are the mainstreaming poets in this field and especially provide the ground for identifying and establishing of pseudonym in the Lyric. Relying on the repetition of a word that is one of the main characteristics of the definition of a pseudonym, some contemporary scholars have made a mistake in determining the pseudonym of poets and have attributed incorrect pseudonym to sixth century poets. Among these mistakes in attribution, we can mention the word Rahi, which has been introduced as the pseudonym of some poets. In this article, in a descriptive-analytical method,we mentioned the history of pseudonym in Persian and Arabic poetry as well as its place in poetry. We examined the hidden pseudonym in Sana'i and Rumi's poetry and by searching in Persian poems from the beginning and with emphasis on research in the poems of sixth century poets, we have studied the word Rahi in the place of pseudonym. The results show a kind of literary tradition and theme and words synonymous with the word Rahi in the use of this word by different poets, which cannot in all cases indicate the poet's pseudonym.
