Artistic Improvement of the image of Rind in Classical Literature

Abstract

The article discusses the gradual and artistic development of the image of Rind in classical oriental literature, in particular in Persian and Turkish literature. The author of the article first pays attention to the lexical and terminological meanings of this word, noting that in the sources the word rind is used in the meanings of a hooligan, troublemaker and drunkard. He also points out that in Persian classical poetry the word was first used in its original meaning and then used in a mystical sense. The article examines the image of Rind in Persian literature based on the works of Sanoi Gaznevi, Nizomi Ganjavi, Fariduddin Attor, Saadi Sherozi, Hafiz Sherozi, in Turkic literature in the works of Alisher Navoi.According to the author of the article, thanks to Hafiz Shirazi, the rind symbol became one of the central images of Persian classical poetry. In the poetry of Hafiz, the rind acts only as the main character of lyrical works, while Alisher Navoi managed to fully express the lexical, artistic, aesthetic, historical, epistemological and terminological meanings of this image in his works. In the article this issue is considered on the example of lyrics, poems and prose works of Navoi.