a study on the source and the style of alkaafi fel arooz-e-val ghavaafi written by khatib tabrizi

alkaafi fel arooz-e-val ghavaafi written by khatib tabrizi is quite familiar for the students and researchers of the area of prosody and meter. khatib tabrizi is a sixth century scholar. the main characteristic of his age in writing books was to adapt from the texts and works of the predecessors and little use of creativity and innovation. considering the bibliography and the methodology of this great scholar in compiling the above mentioned text, the author of the article has concluded that khatib tabrizi like his other contemporary scholars could not avoid this characteristic of his age and has emphasized on adaptation in his work very much. in his adaptations the main focus of tabrizi has been on the books of saaheb ibn-e-abbad and akhfash. however he has also adapted from the books and works of the other scholars too.