Divan-e Ghiyas al-Din Kojaji

• Persian Title: دیوان غیاث‌الدین کُجُجی
• Transliterated Title: Dīvān-i Ghiyāth al-Dīn Kujujī
• English Title: The Dīvān of Ghiyāth al-Dīn Kujujī
• Author: Ghiyāth al-Dīn Shaykh Muḥammad Kujujānī (8th century A.H.)
• Editors: Masʿūd Rāstī-Pūr; Iḥsān Pūr-Abrīsham
• Language: Persian
• ISBN: 978-600-203-117-4
• Publication Year: 2016
• Pages: 280
• Format: PDF
• Category: Persian Language and Literature
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 294

【Summary】

Khwāja Ghiyāth al-Dīn Shaykh Muḥammad Kujujānī—also known as Khwāja Shaykh—served as Shaykh al-Islām of Tabriz during the reign of Sulṭān Uways and his son Sulṭān Ḥusayn of the Jalayirid dynasty (r. 757–784 A.H.). Descended from a distinguished and respected family, he exercised considerable political and social influence under both the Chūpānids and the Jalayirids, although surviving historical information about his life remains limited.

According to Dawlatshāh Samarqandī, the Dīvān of Khwāja Shaykh—who used the poetic signatures Kujujī and Kujuj—enjoyed wide renown in Iraq and Azerbaijan, though it had fallen into neglect within a century, as noted by Taqī al-Dīn Kāshānī. Today, only a single manuscript of the Dīvān survives, dated 788 A.H. (during the poet’s lifetime) and preserved in the Rashīd Efendi Library. This manuscript contains a diverse corpus of Persian poems as well as fourteen quatrains in Fahlavī (Azeri).
The present critical edition is based on that unique manuscript and is accompanied by a scholarly investigation into the life and historical context of Shaykh Kujujānī.