معرفی و بررسی تذکره ریاض الافکار نوشتۀ عبرتی عظیم آبادی

INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF TAZKIRA“RIYAD UL AFKAR” BY IBRATI AZEEMABADI

Abstract

Persian scholars contributed to the Persian language in many ways.  “Tazkira” writing is one of the things that started and flourished in the subcontinent and hundreds of “tazkira” of Persian poets and writers were written in the subcontinent.  Mir Wazir Ali Ibrati is one of the famous “tazkira” writers of the subcontinent who lived in Azeemabad in the 13th century AH. He was a prose writer of Persian language and left about twenty four works in the fields of story writing, letter writing, lexicography, history, tazkira writing and religious literature. He compiled two Tazkira, “Meraj ul Khayal” about Persian poets and “Riyad ul Afkar” about Perian prose writers. In this article, his life, works and tazkira Riaz al-Afkar is introduced and analyzed briefly.