Dehaki-e-Qazvini, An artist imitator and a creative pioneer

Darvish Mohammad Dehaki, one of the settlers of Dehak village in the suburbs of Qazvin, was a Sufi poet contemporary of Jāmi and Amir Ali Shir Navāii in the ninth century. Dehaki or Darvish was his pen-Name. There is no certain information of his life. His tomb is said to be in Qazvin near the Shāhzādeh Hosseinˈs. His Diwān includes 15 Mokhammases, one Mostazād and nearly 1236 Ghazals. There are two manuscripts of his Diwān, One in Istanbul university and the other one in the national library of Russia. The present article consists of the points we gained editing this Diwān. We used the Istanbul manuscript as the basis of this edition and then compared it with the manuscript in Moscow. Dehakiˈs poem is full of pure poetical moments. He has managed to recite admirable poems paying attention to other great poets like Saadi, Salmān, Hāfez , Jāmi and the others. Imitating these poets, using the folkloric language and expressions ,considering the details and also using the rhetorical methods of speech, made him a pioneer to the Indian style of Persian poem.