A New Work on the Theme “The Language of Birds”

Farid al-Din Attar, enlightening the allegorical meaning of the work by Ghazzali, concretizes the images of birds and through their allegorical images determines the status and people’s position in society. It is important that Farid al-Din Attar introduces into his work Hudhud’s figure, wherein this figure is not existing in Ghazzali’s work as one of the main allegorical character. Gulshahri is the first poet who wrote Dastan in Turkic language, inspired by the Farid al-Din Attar’s poem – “Mantiq al-tayr”. In his poem “Mantiq al-tayr” (written in 1317), along with the traditional narrative plot, introduced a number of new ideas and scenes representing poem as an original work. Riza’s poem “The Language of Birds” has a total of 156 titles, 66 of them are the names of the main parts, and make up 33 names of stories; 53 header consist of extracts (sura’s from the Koran and Hadith). All titles are highlighted and written by surkh. Dastan consists of 8474 Misras, 4237 bayts. The article investigates an allegorical poem “The Language of Birds” a little-known Uzbek poet Payvandi Rizai, the only manuscript which is kept in the Alisher Navai State museum of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. As a result of research, the author comes to the conclusion that the kind of creative interpretation of the poem, and the new artistic display nominated there, all this is the result of creativity artistic creation of Rizai.

Keywords

Rizai Payvandy, “The language of birds”, “Mantiq ut-Tayr”, “Lisan al-tayr”, manuscript, copy, tusha,