The Problem of Persian Calligraphy in Editing and Publishing Verse Texts Case Study: Divan Qatran Tabrizi, Published by the Persian Language and Literature Academy

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Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran.

Abstract

In its thirty-odd years of activity, the Academy of Persian Language and Literature has, in addition to selecting words and publishing volumes of the Comprehensive Dictionary of the Persian Language and dozens of issues of the Academy's journal and its appendices and special issues, presented its suggestions on Persian script, including: writing words separately and continuously, and the way words are arranged in the text in terms of observing spacing or half-spacing when typing, in two books, "Persian Calligraphy Grammar" and "Persian Spelling Dictionary". One of the ways in which the contents of these script styles have become widespread and practical has been the two hundred and forty books that the Academy has published so far; especially thirty of them are dedicated to correcting Persian literary texts. What is noticeable in studying these books, although they may have come from the hands of a single editor, is the difference in taste in recording and writing sentence components in terms of Persian script. This article attempts to examine the style of the correctors or editors of the Divan Qatran Tabrizi, especially in the continuous (half-spaced) writing of inverted adjectives and other words and combinations.

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Azraqi Heravi (1957) Divān, with corrections, comparisons and introduction. ed. Saʾid Nafisi, Zavvār Bookstore [In Persian].
Persian Calligraphy Dictionary. (2012) Persian Language and Literature Academy. 11th ed. [In Persian].
Suzani Samarqandi (1959) Divān. ed. Nāseroddin Šah-Hoseyni, Amir Kabir Publications [In Persian].
Sâdeqi, Ali-Ašraf & Zahrā Zandi Moqaddam (2015) “Dictionary of Persian Calligraphy Spelling”. 7th ed. Persian Language and Literature Academy. [In Persian].
Qatrān Tabrizi )1953( Divān. ed. Mahmud Ābedi and Masʾud Jaʾfari (with the collaboration of Tahmine Atāʾi and Šohre Maʾrefat). 1st ed. Persian Language and Literature Academy. [In Persian].
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Persian Language and Literature
Volume 78, Issue 252
2025
Pages 109-83

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  • Receive Date: 17 September 2025
  • Revise Date: 28 September 2025
  • Accept Date: 28 October 2025
  • Publish Date: 01 December 2025

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