Mahsati

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Azerbaijani postage stamp for the fictional 900th birthday of Mahsati. In Azerbaijan it is called Məhsəti Gəncəvi .

Mahsati ( Persian مهستى, DMG Mahsatī , 'Moon Lady') was a Persian poet who lived between the early 11th and mid- 12th centuries .

Life

Little is known about the life and work of Mahsati. Early sources assign their work to the courts of Mahmud of Ghazna (971-1030), the Seljuk Ahmad Sandschar in Balkh (1084-1157) or a legendary king of Ganja . In his standard work The Beautiful Mahsatī , Fritz Meier states a possible lifetime between the years 1000 and 1150 at the latest.

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Mahsati's work consists almost exclusively of Rubāʿīs , but their assignment is all controversial as there is no original manuscript. As a rule, they are love poems in which the inaccessibility of the loved one, the lack of reciprocity and the resulting cruelty are described. Mystical themes, such as are typical of Persian poetry , are largely absent.

Romantic transfiguration

Mahsati became the heroine of romantic tales early on, the earliest example of which is found in Fariduddin Attar's Ilāhī-nāme . The folk novel Dāstān-e Amīr Aḥmad-o Mahsatī describes, based on Mahsati's quatrains, the love story between poet and poet.

literature

  • Jan Rypka: History of Iranian Literature . Reidel Publishing Company.
  • Edward Brown: A literary History of Persia in Four Volumes . Cambridge University Press 1969, Volume 2, p. 344
  • Narguess Farzad: "Rabia Balkhi and Mahsati Ganjavi" , The Essay, The Islamic Golden Age (episode 6 of 20), BBC Radio 3 , December 2, 2013, accessed April 6, 2020

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d J.TP de Bruijn: Mahsatī . In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . tape VI . Brill, Leiden 1991, p. 85b-86a .
  2. ↑ Fritz Meier: The beautiful Mahsatī . A contribution to the history of the Persian quatrain. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1963, DNB  453286631 .
  3. ↑ Mahsati Ganjavis's songs . // Nizami Gəncəvi adına Milli Azərbaycan Ədəbiyyatı Muzeyi (The National museum of the Azerbaijan literature)
  4. ↑ See also the comparable problem here .
  5. ↑ Fritz Meier: The beautiful Mahsatī . The folk novel about Mahsatī and Amīr Aḥmad. Ed .: Gudrun Schubert and Renate Würsch (=  Nachgelassene Schriften . Volume 2 ). Brill, Leiden 2005, ISBN 90-04-14098-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Mahsati
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahsati Ganjavi; Mähsäti Gändschäwi; Mahastī; Mahsitī; Mahsatī Dabīr; Mahastī Ganǧa'ī
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Persian poet
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH 11th century or 12th century