TRACES OF PERSIAN LITERATURE ON NAIM FRASHERI’S POETRY

This paper deals with the traces of Persian literature on Naim Frasheri’s poetry. It also explores literary and extra literary factors that were of crucial significance during the process of his intellectual formation and ontological manifestation. The paper argues that author’s ideas are the result of the interactions of different cultures, in our case Persian and Albanian cultures. We try to comprehend the social environment and presumptive reasons and sources of author’s motivation and inspiration for his poetic creation. The extra literary factors which have been connecting the poet to Persian language and literature and some epistemes traced in Naim’s poetry were found to be related to epistemic circulation of cultural and literary societies during the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan Region. In this context, special attention has been given to the influences, concepts, archetypes and topics of Persian literature in Naim’s poetry in order to identify the most significant Persian traces in the epistemology and ontology of the Albanian people and their culture. A comparative analysis was conducted on the basis of the letters of poets such as Mewlana, Sa’adi and Hafiz Shirazi within the scope of this study.