Sho’le-ye Ah (an Unknown Work of Ghayouri Dehlavi, a Farsi writer of the Indian Subcontinent)

Although a major part of the cultural and literary treasury of India, especially the written heritage of India’s Farsi writers, has been introduced recently, there are still literary works in the form of prose or poetry which have been produced in the Indian subcontinent and remained unknown. One of these precious unknown works is the lovely story of Sho’le-ye Ah (Flame of Sigh) by Ghayouri Dehlavi, the secretary, Farsi writer and poet of the Indian subcontinent in the 12th century. He was one of the prominent secretaries in the era of Shah Alam Gurkani II, and according to this king’s command, he translated the lovely story of Malek Mohammad and Shamse Banoo from Urdu to Farsi in ‘Naser-e Mosajja’  which he then called  Sho’le-ye Ah. However, since he did not receive any donation for it from the king, he started to compose a supplementary long poem and called it Dood-e Ah (Smoke of Sigh).
This research, for the first time, tries to introduce this Shiite Indian poet and his work, Sho’le-ye Ah. The only remaining copy of Sho’le-ye Ah is in Iran, in the form of a picture version, in Tehran University, and the original copy is available at the Badleian Library in England.