kulliyyat
Sign in to savethumb|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.
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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.
Kulliyat is one of the principal collection forms of Urdu poetry. Taken literally, the term signifies a complete collection of one author's poems, but in practice it is also applied to any collection of poems of one type by an author.
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