Mirza Fath Ali Akhundzadeh

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Considered the "founder of modern literary criticism in Iran,"[1] Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūnd'zādah used literary criticism as "the vehicle for his reformist impulse."[2] Ākhund'zādah, because of his unfamiliarity with the Persian language and its prosody, made technical errors in some of his criticism,[3] and was just as verbose and incoherent as those he attacked.[4] However, he was the first critic in the modern tradition. He emphasized "realistic content in prose and poetry"[5] and attacked the "decadence of Persian literature — a literature that failed to address the social needs of its time."[6]

He published many works on literary criticism:

  • Qirītīkah ("Criticism")
  • Risālah-i īrād ("Fault-finding treatise")
  • Fann-i kirītīkah ("Art of criticism")
  • Darbārah-i Mullā-yi Rūmī va tasnīf-i ū ("On Rumi and his work")
  • Darbārah-i nazm va nasr ("On verse and prose")
  • Fihrist-i kitāb ("Preface to the book")
  • Maktūb bih Mīrzā Āqā Tabrīzī ("Letter to Mīrzā Āqā Tabrīzī")
  • Uṣūl-i nigārish ("Principles of writing")

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  1. ^ Parsinejad, Iraj. A History of Literary Criticism in Iran (1866-1951). Bethesda, MD: Ibex, 2003. pp. 44.
  2. ^ Ibid, 56.
  3. ^ Ibid, 64.
  4. ^ Ibid, 65.
  5. ^ Ibid, 62.
  6. ^ Ibid, 56.


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