Search Results for “iranian poetry”

• STROPHIC POETRY

  Cross-Reference

  See STANZAIC POETRY.

• ABU’L-FARAJ SEJZĪ

  M. Dabīrsīāqī

  4th/10th century poet of Sīstān, author of several lost works on the art of poetry.

• ḠAZAL

  Multiple Authors

  the most important Persian lyric, adopted also by literatures influenced by the classical Persian tradition, in particular Turkish and Urdu poetry.

• CHRISTIANITY

  Multiple Authors

  This entry treats Christianity in pre-Islamic Persia as seen through literary sources and material remains, in Central Asia, in Christian literature in Middle Iranian languages, in Manicheism, and in Persian literature. It also covers Christian influences in Persian poetry and Christian missions in Persia.

• ḴĀNĀ QOBĀDI

  Philip G. Kreyenbroek and Parwin Mahmoudweyssi

  (fl. ca.1700-1759 or 1778), Gurāni poet and one of the major members of the school of Gurāni poetry that is said to have been founded by Yusof Yaskā.

• ṬĀLEB

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  Poet and physician (d. 1015/1606-07). See ABU ṬĀLEB TABRIZI.

• HAFEZ

  Multiple Authors

  Celebrated Persian lyric poet (ca. 715-792/1315-1390).

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ AṬʿEMA

  Cross-Reference

  (d. 1420s) satirical poet who used Persian culinary vocabulary and imagery and kitchen terminology to create a novel style of poetry. See BOSḤĀQ AṬʿEMA.

• ʿARŪŻĪ, YŪSOF

  Z. Safa

  rhetorician and poet of the 4th/10th century.

• BALUCHISTAN

  Multiple Authors

  generally understood by the Baluch and their neighbors to comprise an area of over half a million square kilometers in the southeastern part of the Iranian plateau, south of the central deserts and the Helmand river, and in the arid coastal lowlands between the Iranian plateau and the Gulf of Oman.

• ABDĀL, QARA ŠEMSĪ

  T. Yazici

  (1244-1303/1828-86), a Turkish poet who also wrote poetry in Persian.

• PROSODY iv. New Persian

  Cross-Reference

  The study of poetic metre and of the art of versification, including rhyme, stanzaic forms, and the quantity and stress of syllables. See ʿARUŻ.

• ABŪ SALĪK GORGĀNĪ

  M. N. Osmanov

  Persian poet, contemporary of ʿAmr b. Layṯ the Saffarid (265-88/879-901). 

• ANĪS AL-ʿOŠŠĀQ

  G. M. Wickens

  a small handbook of the imagery traditionally used in Persian love poetry, by Ḥasan b. Moḥammad Šaraf-al-din Rāmi (sometimes Zāmi), d. 795/1393.

• EBN NOṢRAT, AMIR BAHĀʾ-AL- DĪN BARANDAQ ḴOJANDĪ

  Ḏabīḥ-Allāh Ṣafā

  (b. 1356; d. ca. 1433), Timurid poet.

• ABŪ BAKR QOHESTĀNĪ

  Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī

   fl. 5th/11th century, a courtier and man of letters under the Ghaznavids and Saljuqs; himself a poet, he patronized poetry generously.

• ĀDAMĪYAT

  L. P. Elwell-Sutton

  (“Humanity”), name of two Iranian periodicals.

• ʿABD-AL-VĀSEʿ JABALĪ

  Ẕ. Ṣafā

  Persian poet, d. 555/1160.

• BEHBAHANI, SIMIN

  Multiple Authors

  (1927-2014), eminent Iranian poet and human rights activist noted for her innovative treatment of the traditional genre of ghazal.

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• FARĪD ESFARĀYENĪ, Malek-al-Šoʿarāʾ Ḵᵛāja FARĪD-AL-DĪN AḤWAL

  Ḏabīḥ-Allāh Ṣafā

  or Eṣfahānī (d. after 1264), 13th-century Persian poet.

• ABU’L-FAŻL MĪKĀL

  S. ʿA. Anwār

  author and poet, d. 436/1045.

• ABU’L-ʿABBĀS MARVAZĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  Sufi, jurist, and traditionist, one of the first poets to write in New Persian. 

• FĀRESĪYĀT

  Aḥmad Mahdawī Dāmḡānī

  a literary term used in Arabic literature to refer to poems in Arabic which contain some Persian words or even phrases in their original form, the most notable example being the Fāresīyāt of Abū Nowās.

• EBN ṬABĀṬABĀ, ABU’L-ḤASAN MOḤAMMAD

  Ihsan Abbas

  b. Aḥmad b. Moḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ebrāhīm Eṣfahānī (d. 933), poet and critic.

• BOLBOL, AŠRAF DAYRĪ

  Giri L. Tikku

  Persian poet of Kashmir (1682-1775-6).

• ʿABD-AL-RĀFEʿ HERAVĪ

  Żīā-al-dīn Sajjādī

  poet, grammarian, and physician, first attached to the court of Ḵosrow Malek (555-82/1160-76), the last Ghaznavid sultan.

• ABŪ BAKR SARAḴSĪ

  J. W. Clinton

  a follower (but apparently not a contemporary) of Shaikh Abū Saʿīd b. Abi’l-Ḵayr (d. 440/1049).

• FARḠĀNĪ, SAYF-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD

  Sayyāra Mahīnfar

  thirteenth century Persian poet and Sufi of Farḡāna.

• FREE VERSE

  Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

  in Persian poetry. The term šeʿr-e āzād, Persian for the French vers libre and English free verse, entered Persia in the 1940s and immediately began to be used in a variety of senses and applied to diverse subspecies of the emerging canon of šeʿr-e now (new poetry), especially to highlight those features in which this body of poetry was felt to differ from classical Persian poetry and the contemporary practice modeled after it.

• ADHAM, MĪRZĀ EBRĀHĪM

  W. Thackston

  11th/17th century poet.

• ESʿAD EFENDİ, MEHMED

  Tahsın Yazici

  Moḥammad Asʿad Efendi (b. Istanbul, 14 June 1570; d. Istanbul, 21 June 1625), Ottoman religious figure and author of both Persian and Turkish poetry.

• COURTS AND COURTIERS

  Multiple Authors

  Courts and courtiers i. In the Median and Achaemenid periods, ii. In the Parthian and Sasanian periods, iii. In the Islamic period to the Mongol conquest, iv. Under the Mongols, v. Under the Timurid and Turkman dynasties, vi. In the Safavid period, vii. In the Qajar period, viii. In the reign of Reżā Shah Pahlavī, ix. In the reign of Moḥammad-Reżā Shah. See SUPPLEMENT, x. Court poetry

• GƎUŠ TAŠAN

  William W. Malandra

  (the fashioner of the Cow), a divine craftsman who figures prominently in the Gathas of Zoroaster but falls into obscurity in the Younger Avesta, being there associated with the fourteenth day of the month, known in Middle Persian simply as Gōš.

• FAŻLĪ, MEḤMED

  Tahsın Yazici

  (b. Istanbul; d. Kütahya, 1563), Moḥammad or ʿAlī ÇAĞDAŞLAN; Turkish poet, known also as Qara Fażlī.

• ABU’L-YANBAḠĪ

  Y. Richard

  Iranian poet (d. 230/844).

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• ABŪ ḤAFṢ SOḠDĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  one of the so-called “first poets” in New Persian.

• PÎREMÊRD

  Keith Hitchins

  (1867-1950), pen-name of Tawfiq, son of Maḥmud, son of Ḥamza (in Kurdish: Tewfîq kurî MehmûdʿAḡa kurî Hemze ʿAḡa), Kurdish writer, journalist, and public intellectual.

• HAMGAR, MAJD-AL-DIN

  Ḏabiḥ-Allāh Ṣafā

  (1210-1287), MAJD-AL-DIN B. AḤMAD, known also as Ebn-e Hamgar (hamgar means “weaver”), an important poet of the 13th century.

• HEMIN MOKRIĀNI

  Joyce Blau

  the pen name of Sayyed Moḥammad Amini Šayḵ-al-Eslām Mokri, Kurdish poet and journalist (1921-1986).

• ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB SAČAL

  A. Schimmel

  Sindhi mystical poet (18th-early 19th century).

• ADĪB ṢĀBER

  Ḏ. Ṣafā

  famous poet of the first half of the 6th/12th century. 

• FARĀLĀVĪ

  François de Blois

  the conventional reading of the name of an early Persian poet.

• ADĪB NAṬANZĪ

  ʿA. N. Monzawī

  poet and linguist of the 5th/11th century, from Naṭanz, near Isfahan.

• ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ TABRĪZĪ

  ʿAbd-al-ʿAlī Kārang

  religious scholar and notable of Azerbaijan (d. 1039/1629-30).

• DO-BAYTĪ

  Stephen Blum

  a quatrain of sung poetry in many Persian dialects.

• ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ ŠOŠTARĪ

  M. Zand

  early Persian poet and prosodist (the earliest known from the Šoštar area).

• FAṢĪḤĪ HERAVĪ, MĪRZĀ FAṢĪḤ-AL-DĪN

  ḎABĪḤ-ĀLLĀH ṢAFĀ

  b. Abu’l-Makārem b. Mawlānā Mīrjān Anṣārī (1579-1639), poet of the 11th/17th century.

• EDEB

  Amir Hassanpour

  b. Armanī Bolāḡī (1860-1918), pen name of the Kurdish poet ʿAbd-Allāh Beg b. Aḥmad Beg Bābāmīrī Miṣbāḥ-al-Dīwān.

• BHAGVĀN DĀS HENDĪ

  N. H. Ansari

  Indian poet and author writing in Persian. He belonged to the Hindu Srīvāstava Kāyastha community, which is known for its deep interest in Persian.