Researches of Our Literature Written in Persian Language

Abstract

I tried in this paper to point out the main streams of development of the researches of our literature written in Persian language, which is according to its quantity, much smaller than the literature written in Turkishand Arabic. The first step in the researches of this literature was made in the first half of the t 9 th century with the book of Baron von Hammer Purgstall (1774-1856) Die Geschichte der Osmanischen Dichtkunst (A History of OttomanPoetty), 4 vols. - Pest, t 836-38. He mentioned in this book a number of our poets and writers who had written in Persian, and in Arabic and Turkish language as well. He was followed by English orientalist. J. W. Gibb and his work A History of Ottoman Poetry, vols. I-III. London, 1909. At the end ofthe t9th century the researches of this literature started in Bosnia and Herzegovina, under the influence of Hammer, especially, and later on under the influence of Gibb: Safvet-beg Bašagić, Mehmed Handžić, Hazim Šabanović, and the later generations of the researchers. Contemporary researchers ofthis literature .are: Muhsin Rizvić, Milivoje Malić, Smail Balić, Saćir Sikirić, Dejan Bogdanović, Džemal Ćehajić, etc, All of them have been mentioned in this paper.