Qovsi Tabrizi

Qovsi Tabrizi (Azerbaijani: قوسی تبریزلی; Persian: قوسی تبریزی; born Alijan Ismailoghlu Qovsi^[1][2]) was a 17th-century poet.

Life

Qovsi Tabrizi was born in Tabriz in the first quarter of the 17th century,^[1][2] to an Azerbaijani family.^[3] His father, Ismail Qovsi was a craftsman and a poet.^[1][4] Tabrizi was educated in Isfahan and during his stay there, he wrote poems about Tabriz and often compared the two cities.^[1]

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.^[4] Qovsi Tabrizi often used literary expressions of folk language.^[5][1]

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.^[4]

References

Literature

• Javadi, H.; Burrill, K. (1988). "Azerbaijan x. Azeri Turkish Literature". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume III/3: Azerbaijan IV–Bačča(-ye) Saqqā. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 251–255. ISBN 978-0-71009-115-4.
• Johanson, Lars (2020). "Restricted Access Isfahan – Moscow – Uppsala. On Some Middle Azeri Manuscripts and the Stations Along Their Journey to Uppsala". In Csató, Éva Á.; Gren-Eklund, Gunilla; Johanson, Lars; Karakoç, Birsel (eds.). Turcologica Upsaliensia: An Illustrated Collection of Essays. Brill. pp. 167–179. ISBN 978-9004435704.