The Study and Analysis of Khaghani's Family Careers and his Artistic Defense of them

The class system dominating the society in Khaghani’s era caused each person to be treated with regard to the social status of his family. The family of Khaghani belonged to the inferior class of society and tradesmen. Thus, he was not of high social status in the society and was blamed by his adversaries and rivals due to the very reason. His weapon against such attacks and blames was his art. Instead of refuting his family and past like the cowardice, he behaved exactly the opposite and honored the career of his family and predecessors with an outstanding self-respect. In fact, this creative poet considers his poetry as the continuation of his family’s career and justifies this by the aid of imagery. This matter not only is observable in his entire divan but also and especially is manifested in Khatm al-Gharayeb mathnavi.
The aim of this study is to analyze how Khaghani employs artistically the career of his family in his divan and Khatm al-Gharayeb mathnavi. While reflecting and defending the careers of his family, this poet uses them very well in creating novel compounds and phrases. Khaghani, the uncontested master of compounding, has created the most beautiful and novel poetic compounds such as Sokhantarash, Hikmatbaf, Sokhanbaf and Abapozma’ani on the basis of his family careers. This study can provide a better psychological understanding of this poet.