A criticism on correction of poems of Tarikh e zolqarnain

The correction of literary and historical texts is one of the valuable works in recent century which has provided the basis for the revival of many classic poetry and prose. This has paved the way for the accessibility of scientific, literary, historical and religious texts for those interested in Iran’s history, literature, and culture.
The history of Zolgharnain written by Khavari Shirazi, one of these historical texts, is one of the first-hand sources of King Fathali Shah Qajar in which the author has written many of the historical and social events of that period.
This book is published in two volumes corrected by Naser Afshar containing an introduction by him in which there are around two thousand couplets with different subjects which are of especial importance. In this article, we, first, investigate the defects in the corrected introduction and the text footnotes, then, we attend to the criticism of all the poems’ correction in terms of content, text readability, techniques of correction and writing.