Persian poetry

the systematic collection of a poet's output for academic purposes, as opposed to the self-published mecmuas

poetry unit

In the poetic traditions of the Islamic East, particularly in Persian, Turkic, and Urdu ghazals, the radīf (from the Arabic linguistic root , meaning 'the one riding behind') refers to a specific word or short phrase that must consistently end each line of the opening couplet and the second line of all subsequent couplets.

poem by Amir Khusrow

epic poem by Nezami Ganjavi

12th-century poet

A Nowheh or Noha ( nowheh, ; translit. nūḥa/nawḥa; ), when interpreted in light of Shia views, is an elegy about the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali and his family and companions in the Battle of Karbala.

set of five poems by Nizami

meter in Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry

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thumb|Cover of the 1872 translation of the works of Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda (1713–1781) A kulliyyāt (from Arabic: ; ; ; ; ) is a collection of the poetry of any one poet.

Iranian poet

book by Abu Nasr Farahi

anthology compiled by the Persian poet Jamal al-Din Khalil Shirvani

Qāfiya (from Arabic: , ; ; ; ; ) is the classical Islamic prosodic term for rhyme.

Fahlaviyat (), also spelled fahlavi (), was a designation for poetry composed in the local northwestern Iranian dialects and languages of the Fahla region, which comprised Isfahan, Ray, Hamadan, Mah Nahavand, and Azerbaijan, corresponding to the ancient region of Media. Fahlaviyat is an Arabicized form of the Persian word Pahlavi, which originally meant Parthian, but now came to mean "heroic, old, ancient." According to the historians Siavash Lornejad and Ali Doostzadeh, the Fahlaviyat used in Azerbaijan was called Old Azeri.

Diwan-e-Ghalib is a poetry book written by the India born Persian and also Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. It is a collection of the ghazals of Ghalib. Though it does not include all of his ghazals as he was too choosy to include them all, still in many other copies of the Diwan Urdu scholars have tried to collect all of his precious works. Several editions of the Diwan exist such as the Nuskha-e Nizami, Nuskha-e Arshi by Imtiaz Ali 'Arshi', Nuskha-e-Hamidiya (Bhopal), Nuskha az Ghulam rasool Mehr.

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In Persian, Turkic, Hindustani and Punjabi, the word takhallus (from Arabic , ; ; ; ; , ) means a pen name. Pen names were widely adopted by Persian, Turkic, Urdu and Punjabi poets.