The Necessity for Critical Commentary of Khajuye Kermani's Divan Print

Although Khajuye Kermani’s Divan is important in many aspects, there is only one commentary of this Divan which consists of odes, sonnets, quatrains etc. This commentary which has been written by Ahmad Soheili Khansari in 1336 has many problems. One of the problems of this commentary is that it did not use all the available versions of the Divan. Also, the version used in this commentary has been ignored many times without any textual-critical reason. In this article, various aspects of this commentary are evaluated and, through this, it is shown that the available commentary of Khajuye Kermani’s Divan is far from a critical commentary.