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The Music of Words: Appreciating Meter (ʿAruz) in Classical…
The beauty of classical Persian poetry lies not only in its imagery and philosophical depth but also in its musica…
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Stanzas of Splendor: Exploring the Mosammat, Tarkib-band, a…
Exploring Stanzas of Persian Poetry Mosammat, Tarkib-band, and Tarji-band. I'll explain each form, starting with: Mos…
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More Than Fragments: Understanding the Qetʿeh in Persian Po…
Exploring the Qet'eh in Persian Poetry Often overshadowed by grand qasidas, ecstatic ghazals, or pithy rubāʿiyyāt, the …
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Four Lines, Infinite Wisdom: The Power and Philosophy of th…
The rubaiʿī (Arabic: رباعي; Persian: رباعی, plural rubaiyyat) is a deceptively simple poetic form—just four …
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Heroic, Romantic, Didactic: The Many Faces of the Masnavi F…
The masnavi (mathnawī) is one of the most versatile narrative poetic forms in Persian—and, by extension, Urd…
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The Anatomy of the Qasida: Praise, Philosophy, and Poetic S…
The qasida (قصيدة) is one of the oldest and most versatile forms in Arabic—and by extension Persian and Urdu…
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The Evolution of the Ghazal: From Courtly Love to Divine Lo…
The ghazal—an exquisite form of lyric poetry built on couplets, rhyme, and refrain—has journeyed across cen…
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Omar Khayyam: Reconciling the Scientist and the Poet of the…
Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) occupies a rare place in world culture as both a brilliant mathematician‐astronomer and …
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Jami: The Polymath Poet and the Culmination of the Classica…
Jami of Herat (1414–1492) stands as the crowning figure of the classical Persian poetic and intellectual traditio…
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Sanai of Ghazni: The Poet Who Paved the Way for Rumi
Hakīm Abū al-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā’ī Ghaznī (c. 1080–1131) occupies a pivotal place in Persian literary…
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Attar’s Spiritual Allegories: Exploring Worlds Beyond The C…
Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (c. 1145–1221) is best known in the West for his profound masterpiece Mantiq…
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Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa: Masterpieces of Persian Romantic a…
Nizami Ganjavi (c. 1141–1209) stands as one of the greatest poets of classical Persian literature. His five epic …
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