Divan of Saidâ (Review-text)

Saida, one of the hijri 11th century poets, spent the last periods of his life in the Ottoman country. The Persian divan of Saida, of which we have created the criticized text, consists of introduction, qasidas, mathnawis, ghazals, rubais and mufrads. This divan is a sufism work and written in the Indian Style. Although the text of divan of Saida have been criticized by a few researchers in Iran, we deemed this study necessary because of the fact that the number of manuscripts used for the text criticizm is less and the information about the poet's life is wrong and inadequate. In the first part, we have referred the poet's biography. We have also touched on the biographies of two poets who are confused with Saida by Iranian researchers. In addition to these, we have briefly touched on the divan of Saida, his single work; and we have introduced the studies about this work in Iran. In the second part, we have analyzed the text in terms of style, subject, content and shape. In the third part, first we have introduced eight manuscript copies of divan, and we have described how we had created a genealogy by these copies. Then, we have included the criticized text of the divan, which had been prepared by five copies chosen with the help of this genealogy.