Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 18، number In Volume 4، July 2025 ، issue Number 110

Features of Indian Style, School of Voghooe and Vasokht in Shani Taklu’s Divan

Mohammad Rahimi , Mohammad Amir Obaydinia (Author in Charge)

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: One of the poets of Indian style during the period of Vajiya al-Din Nasaf Agha, nicknamed Shani Taklu, was in the mid-10th century and a contemporary of Shah Abbas Safavi. Although most of Shani’s poems are simple and in this respect he should be considered a follower of the School of Occurrence, many features of Indian style such as paradoxical images, sensuality, specific numerical dependencies, identification, specific combinations, abstraction, equational style, etc. are seen in his poems, which places his poetry on the border between the School of Voghooe and Indian style.

METHODOLOGY: This research seeks to answer this question: What are the characteristics of the Indian style, the school of Voghooe and vasukht in Shani Taklu"s Divan?

Study Method: This article is written in an analytical and descriptive manner, and after providing an introduction to Shani Taklu and stylistics, the most prominent characteristics of the Indian style, the school of Voghooe and vasukht in Shani"s poetry Divan are examined and analyzed.

FINDINGS: In the tenth and eleventh centuries and before the Indian style, the school of occurrence and vasukht emerged as an intermediate style and freed the ghazal from the dryness and monotony of the ninth century and adorned it with simplicity of speech and thought. It expressed the true feeling between the lover and the beloved.

CONCLUSION: Shani should be considered a follower of the school of occurrence. But along with the characteristics of the school of Voghooe and vasukht that are abundantly found in his divan and ghazals, one can also find signs of the characteristics of the Indian style in his divan. Although they are few in number compared to the frequency of the characteristics of the school of Voghooe and vasukht, their presence makes his divan also noteworthy from the perspective of the Indian style, among which we can mention the images of paradox, sensuality, special numerical dependencies, identification, special combinations, abstraction, equational style, etc., and this makes him one of the poets who are at the boundary between the school of Voghooe and the Indian style.

Keyword
10th century poetry , Indian style , school of Voghooe , vasukht , Shani Taklu.

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