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Persian Language and Literature 2013, 21(75): 7-16 Back to browse issues page
The Role of Diacritical Point in Reading a Word and Its effect on Defining the Meaning of the Poems of Hafiz
Salim Neysari
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Some of the scribes of manuscripts of the poems of Hafiz, including the scribes of the ninth century AH, due to their haste or because they thought little of the importance of diacritical points in the words, did not care for the right position of point in writing or even sometimes omitted it.For the editor of the poetry of Hafiz, especially in his reference toand use of the manuscripts, the problem is that when a word whose first letter, for example, has no pointhe can neither put the word among those manuscripts that take the word as a positive verb nor among those where the word is written as a negative verb.The three examples given in this article show that the editors of the poetry of Hafiz could not come to an agreement regarding the writing of the word in question on the basis of a certain meaningor interpretation of some of the verses of Hafiz. Indeed interest in one reading or following one editionhave made this agreement impossible.

Keywords: Hafiz, Varience in the Poetry of Hafiz, omitted diacritical point in manuscripts
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