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Abstract

Saqinameh recital and its traces in Persian literature date back to centuries ago. Many poets have endeavored reciting Saqinameh so as to showcase their art in the loftiest rank of poetry. Saqinameh is a sort of couplet poem featuring a convergent metre [with epical tone and dialect] in which the poet addresses the barmaid and expresses things in reminding death and instability of the earthy life within the format of advices and recommendations and mottos. Although this type of poetry is somewhat similar to Khamriyeh for the mentioning of the beaker and wine in it, the two conditions, i.e. being of couplet form and in convergent metre, make it a special kind of Persian poetry and the special philosophical and ethical and theosophical spirits of such poems vividly differ from the ordinary contents of the other Khamriyeh poems. Amongst the Saqinamehs recited by Persian speaking poets, Hafiz’s Saqinamehs are quite popular. The Saqinameh by Razi Al-Din Artimani was selected for the present study’s writing for its theosophical themes so that the readers, meanwhile getting familiar with this mystic poet, also become acquainted with the theosophical hints mentioned in his Saqinameh.