پژوهش در فن قافيه شعر فارسي

A Research into the Use of Rhyme in Persian Poetry

This paper deals with the use of qafiye (rhyme) in Persian poetry. The rules governing its use were first drawn up by Arab poets, but some of these rules were later modified by Iranians, who found the Arabic script a useful tool for composing rhyming games and other forms of word-play. But there were also problems. (Zipoli cites eleven cases where the same rules do not apply equally to both Persian and Arabic rhyme.) Two 7th-century (A.H.) Iranian scholars have tackled the problems of gafiye and have written manuals to guide poets and versifiers. They are Sams-e Qeys Razi (originally of Rey/Rhages) and Kaje Nasir al-Din lust (originally of Tus in Khorasan) who have worked independently of one another but have obtained more or less the same results. Professor Zipoli finds the method proposed by Sams-e Qeys in his Al-Mu jam ft ma `ayir ʹan?. al- `ajam more practical, and at the same the views expressed by Nasir al-Din Tusi in his Miyar al-ʹas`ar more precise. Zipoli believes that TUsiʹs views have been overshadowed by those of Sams-e Qeys because the former manual is better known among the scholars.