The Persian Prison Poem, Hardback Book

The Persian Prison Poem Hardback

Part of the Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World series

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Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry.

It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia., offering an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity.

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