Interpretation of the Poetic Views of the Period in Mutribi Tazkiras (Essays)
Abstract
This article is devoted to the history of the tazkira genre, which reached its zenith in the 16th century in Eastern classical literature. Under the influence of Alisher Navoi's tazkira "Majolis un-nafais", dozens of works were created in the subsequent centuries. Their scope broadened, starting to assume an encyclopaedic character. Nowadays, a tazkira is not merely a niche genre that provides information about creators, but encapsulates the literary process of its time, the history of literary and aesthetic perspectives, issues of poetics, the foundations of Sufism, and the expression of the national mindset in literature. Numerous issues related to this genre await exploration. Among them, issues such as illuminating the literary process of the period, the history and development of poetics, and the reflection of the period's literary theory in the tazkiras are particularly pertinent. This article addresses one of these significant problems: the manifestation of the poetic views of the period in the tazkiras. Given the breadth of the scope, Sultan Muhammed Mutribi's work "Tazkirat ush-shuaro" was selected as a representative sample from the tazkiras.