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Rumi's ghazal 163, which begins Beravīd, ey harīfān "Go, my friends", is a Persian ghazal (love poem) of seven verses by the 13th-century poet Jalal-ed-Din Rumi (usually known in Iran as Mowlavi or Mowlana). The poem is said to have been written by Rumi about the year 1247 to persuade his friend Shams-e Tabriz to come back to Konya from ...
The gender of the beloved is ambiguous in Persian. It could be a woman, as in the Arabic poetry which Hafez is apparently imitating, or a boy or young man, as often in Persian love poetry; or it could refer to God, if the poem is given a Sufic interpretation. [33] The final half-verse, like the first, is in Arabic.
The Divān of Hafez (Persian: دیوان حافظ) is a collection of poems written by the Iranian poet Hafez. Most of these poems are in Persian, but there are some macaronic language poems (in Persian and Arabic) and a completely Arabic ghazal. The most important part of this Divān is the ghazals. Poems in other forms such as qetʿe, qasida ...
A collection of poems by the Persian Sufi poet Rumi, dedicated to his spiritual teacher Shams-i Tabrizi. The Divan contains over 40,000 verses in various poetic forms and styles, expressing themes of love, longing, and mysticism.
Vis and Rāmin (Persian: ويس و رامين, Vis o Rāmin) is a classical Persian love story. The epic was composed in poetry by Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (or "Gorgani") in the 11th century. Gorgani claimed a Sasanian origin for the story, but it is now regarded as of Parthian dynastic origin, probably from the 1st century AD. [ 1 ]
A classic poem by Nizami Ganjavi based on the Arabic legend of the tragic love between Qays and Layla. The poem was written in 1188 and has been translated into several languages and adapted into various forms of art.
Shirazi Turk is a famous ghazal (love poem) by the Persian poet Hāfez of Shiraz. It describes his love for a Turk and his willingness to give up Samarkand and Bukhara for her.
Haft Peykar is the story of King Bahram Gur, known for his hunting ability and seven wives. [4] The Haft Peykar consists of seven tales. Bahram sends for seven princesses as his brides, and builds a palace containing seven domes for his brides, each dedicated to one day of the week, governed by the day's planet and bearing its emblematic color.