Qovsi Tabrizi
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| birth_name = Alijan Ismailoghlu Qovsi
| birth_date = First quarter of 17th century
| birth_place = Tabriz
| occupation = Poet
| death_date = 17th century
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Qovsi Tabrizi ({{langx|az-Arab|قوسی تبریزلی}}; {{langx|fa|قوسی تبریزی}}; born Alijan Ismailoghlu Qovsi{{sfn|Javadi|Burrill|1988|pp=251–255}}) was a 17th-century poet.
Life
Qovsi Tabrizi was born in Tabriz in the first quarter of the 17th century,{{cite web |last1=Akpınar |first1=Yavuz |title=KAVSÎ TEBRÎZÎ |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/kavsi-tebrizi |website=İslâm Ansiklopedisi |access-date=7 May 2022 |language=tr}}{{sfn|Javadi|Burrill|1988|pp=251–255}} to an Azerbaijani family.{{sfn|Johanson|2020|p=169}} His father, Ismail Qovsi was a craftsman and a poet.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Ковси Тебризи |encyclopedia=Great Soviet Encyclopedia |date=1970–1979 |last= |first= |publisher= |location=Moscow |volume=3 |language=ru |id= |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Kovsi+Tebrizi |access-date=7 May 2022 }} Tabrizi was educated in Isfahan and during his stay there, he wrote poems about Tabriz and often compared the two cities.
Poetry
Tabrizi hated social injustice and ridiculed clergy in his works. The theme of romantic love and an idealistic and pantheistic worldview took a significant place in his lyrics. Pessimistic motifs are also present, shown in his descriptions of people's thoughts and hopes. Other features of Tabrizi's poems include a diversity of representations, forms and intonations. Qovsi Tabrizi often used literary expressions of folk language.{{cite journal |last1=Gulusoy |first1=İlkin |title=KAVSİ TEBRİZİ ŞİİRLERİNİN DİLİNİN LEKSİK ÖZELLİKLERİ ÜZERİNE |journal=International Journal of Turkish Literature Culture Education |date=January 2018 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=771–787 |doi=10.7884/teke.4152|doi-access=free }}
Collections of Tabrizi's lyrical poems are stored in two manuscripts. One is in the British Library in London and the other is in the History Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi.
References
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Literature
- {{Encyclopaedia Iranica | volume=3 | fascicle=3 | title = Azerbaijan x. Azeri Turkish Literature | last= Javadi |first= H. | last2 = Burrill| first2 = K. | url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/azerbaijan-x | pages = 251–255 }}
- {{cite book |last=Johanson |first=Lars |title= Turcologica Upsaliensia: An Illustrated Collection of Essays |publisher=Brill |year=2020 |isbn=978-9004435704|editor-last1=Csató|editor-first1=Éva Á.|editor-last2=Gren-Eklund|editor-first2=Gunilla |editor-last3=Johanson|editor-first3=Lars|editor-last4=Karakoç|editor-first4=Birsel|pages=167–179|chapter=Restricted Access Isfahan – Moscow – Uppsala. On Some Middle Azeri Manuscripts and the Stations Along Their Journey to Uppsala|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R_cFEAAAQBAJ}}
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Category:17th-century Iranian poets
Category:16th-century writers from Safavid Iran