Mahammad Fuzuli’s nazira to Sururi’s ghazal

Abstract

Sururi is one of the Azerbaijani poets who wrote and created in the 16th century. He became hurufi poet and in his work he mainly benefited from Nasimi's heritage. He also influenced the creativity of many poets. From this point of view, the work of the great author of classical Azerbaijani poetry, Mahammad Fuzuli, attracts attention. The genius poet turned to Sururi poetry in the first periods of his literary activity and wrote a nazira to a number of his ghazals. As we know, nazira, which is widely used in divan literature, is a form of poetry in which one authors's poem is written by another poet with the same form, weight and rhyme. The master artist Mahammad Fuzuli benefited from the original poetry characteristics of Sururi's poetry, selected the most beautiful examples from the his poetry, and created mysterious examples using unique poetic forms. In the article, is analyzed Fuzulı's nazira to Sururı's ghazal, in a comparative way, at the time the ghazals of both authors are comparatively studied in terms of predecessor-successor relations