“THE NEWLY DISCOVERED DIVAN OF YUSUF QARABAGHĪ: (958–1054 AH /1551-1644) WITH A NEW SCHOLARLY STUDY ON THE POET’S LIFE AND BIOGRAPHY”
Keywords:
Yūsuf Qarābāghī, Samarqand, Bukhara, Qarābāgh, Divan, safavidAbstract
This article introduces the newly discovered Dīvān of Mawlānā Yūsuf Qarābāghī (958–1054 AH / 1551–1644), a prominent Sunni scholar and poet of the 16th–17th centuries. The study reconstructs his intellectual biography, including his education in Shiraz, migration to Transoxiana, affiliation with the Kubrawiyya Sufi order, and his scholarly and spiritual activities in Samarqand and Bukhara under the patronage of Imāmqulī Khān. The sole surviving manuscript of his Dīvān, preserved in the Salar Jung Library and containing Persian and Turkish poems, is critically edited and analyzed. By situating Qarābāghī within the literary and intellectual history of Iran, Azerbaijan, and Central Asia, this study restores the long-overlooked role of this influential figure.
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