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Hada'iq al-sihr fi daqa'iq al-shi'r

book by Rashid al-Din Vatvat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ5957550 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hada'iq al-sihr fi daqa'iq al-shi'r (Persian: حدائق السحر فی دقائق الشعر; "Gardens of Magic in the Subtleties of Poetry") is a 12th-century Persian treatise on rhetoric composed by Rashid al-Din Vatvat, a high-ranking bureaucrat of the Khwarazmian Empire.

References

Sources

Chalisova, N. Y. (2002). "Ḥadāʾeq al-seḥr". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. XI/4: Greece VIII–Hadith II. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-933273-66-5.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hada'iq al-sihr fi daqa'iq al-shi'r” as book by Rashid al-Din Vatvat. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hada'iq, al-sihr and daqa'iq can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as book by Rashid al-Din Vatvat. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5957550. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hada'iq al-sihr fi daqa'iq al-shi'r” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.