شش غزل از شمس حاجي

Six Qazals by Shams Haji

Shams Haji is an eighth century writer whose life is not quite well-known to us. He is not mentioned in the famous biography books and his Divan is not available. Therefore, his scattered poems must be collected. While studying an unknown collection belonging to the Leiden University, the author of the article found that the collection contains a copy of the book Bahr al- Favaed which has six qazals by Shams Haji. Consequently, he copied out those six qazals and edited them in this paper. Also, he provides the characteristics of two anthologies written in Shams Hajiʹs handwriting. The anthologies bear poems by Shams Haji too, and one of them was introduced by the author of the article in the periodical Yaghma, in 1346 sh.