SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN MEDIEVAL WRITINGS ABOUT ARUZ BY SHAMSADDIN QEIS RAZI AND ABDURRAHMAN JA’MI

Abstract

The peoples of the Near and Middle East have much in common in spiritual and moral values, culture, science and literature. One of these spiritual values is the Aruz system of versification, which is used in the poetry of all Eastern peoples.

Aruz was applied to the metric system used by Arab poets since pre-Islamic times, or rather to the method of scanning and classifying these dimensions. Aruz is a poetic pattern in which long and short syllables form a beautiful rhythm of reading in certain combinations, the sequence of which is followed with the precision expected in all stanzas.

The object of our research are two medival treatises on Persian Aruz studies - "al-Mu’jam fil-ma’ayir ashar al-ajam", written by the Persian poet, thinker and linguist Shams Qeis Razi, and "Risale-i Aruz" by the Persian poet Abdurrahman Jami’, who both played an important role in the development of the theory of Persian aruz.