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The Miracle of Parvīn
The Issue of Women in Early Modern Iran During the rise of constitutionalism in Iran, women’s issues and education took center stage in many essays and discussions. Nisāyyāt (women’s issues) became the central theme in…
April 29, 2026
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The Necessity of Re-Editing Jahān Malik Khātūn’s Dīvān
Introduction A princess and a poet, Jahān Malik Khātūn wrote in the prose introduction to her Dīvān (collection of poems) that she was “the daughter of Masʿūd Shāh” of Injuids and a descendant of Khvājah…
Opening the Drawn Curtain: Decoding the Gendered Personhood of the ‘Woman Poet’ in Persian Poetry
Of all the many ways in which literature can be delineated and categorized, distinctions along gender lines are perhaps the most complex. Debate around this label, and its implied hierarchy of writerly worth, remains divisive…
May 1, 2026
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The History of Women’s Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Present
Historicizing women’s poetry involves investigation of the evolution of poetry by Iranian women from the beginnings of Persian literature in approximately 900 CE (400 AH) to the present (2023 CE/1402 HS). This study introduces women…
April 3, 2026
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Unveiling the Domestic Mind: Persian Women Poets on the Self and the Other
Introduction Poetry has been the heart of Persianate culture for a long time. More than any artistic media, poems have shaped and manifested Persian mental life for about a millennium.1[The author wishes to express her…
April 3, 2026
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Jahān Malik Khātūn: Poetry, Life and Mediaeval Reception*
Her Life in Shiraz Jahān was an Injuid princess, and daughter of the ruler of Shiraz, Masʿūd Shāh (r. 736/1336-739/1339).1Dick Davis, trans., The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women,…
April 6, 2026
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Inclusion and Exclusion of Literary Elements in Mastūrah Kurdistānī’s Ghazals
ntroduction Māh Sharaf Khānum Mastūrah, a nineteenth-century Iranian poet who wrote under the pen name “Mastūrah,” was born in Sanandaj (a city in the Kurdistān province) around 1220 AH/1805 CE. According to the Majmaʿ al-fusahā…
April 6, 2026
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Key Characteristics of Iranian Women’s Poetry in the 1990s
Introduction The 1370s/1990s marked a significant turning point in contemporary Iranian poetry, characterized by a bold departure from established norms and the emergence of diverse poetic voices. Among the most transformative developments of this period…
April 6, 2026
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The Image of the Beloved in Hayrān Khānum Dunbulī’s Epic Poetry
Introduction The corpus of poetry preserved from Persian-speaking female poets is markedly limited compared to that of their male counterparts. As the editor of Hayrān Khānum’s Dīvān (Book of Poems) observes, “At the inception of…
April 6, 2026
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Jahān Malik Khātūn’s Poetic Imitation and Poetic Response
Introduction In 1374/1995, the Dīvān (Book of poems) of Jahān Malik Khātūn was edited and published by Pūrānʹdukht Kāshānī Rād and Kāmil Ahmadʹpūr. Despite being the most extensive collection of poetry by a woman—and a royal…
April 6, 2026
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Rābiʿah Quzdārī: The Vanguard of Women’s Poetry
Introduction Rābiʿah bint Kaʿb Quzdārī was a poet who lived in the AH 4th/10th century. She has been referred to by various names, including “bint Kaʿb,”1Muhammad ibn ʿUmar al-Rādūyānī, Tarjumān al-balāghah [Interpreter of eloquence], ed….
December 22, 2025
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- Afghan Women Poets in the Digital Age
- Anecdotes about Mihrī Hiravī in the Tazkira Tradition With Poems Newly Attributed To Her
- Ashraf Mishkātī: The Love-Stricken Poet of Gilan
- Azerbaijani Women Poets
- A Gadamerian Approach to the Hermetic Poetry of Fīrūzah Mīzānī and Parīmāh Aʿvānī
- A Lady Without Passport: Rābiʿah among the Islamic Republics
- A Look at the Lover’s Face in the Epic Poems of Hayrān Dunbulī
- A Private Journey Under the Red Shadow of an Umbrella: A Reading of Tāhirah Saffārʹzādah’s Poems from the Perspective of Dominance Approach
- A Thousand Years of Iranian Women’s Poetry
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- Celestial Crossings: Literary Reception of Tāhirah Qurrat al-ʿAyn in the Indian Subcontinent
- Childhood in Afsānah Shaʿbānʹnizhād’s Poetry: Insights from an Iranian Woman Poet of Children’s Literature
- Comparative Women’s Poetry of Iran and Latin America
- Context and Concept: Early 20th Century Women Poets
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- Farangīs Shantīʾā
- Farzānah Khujandī
- Fasl-i Bahār Khānum
- Female Identity and Poetry
- Female Poetics in Classical Persian Literature
- Female Poets of Mughal Court
- Feminine Aspects of Modern Persian Poetics
- Feminine Intervention: Early Qajar Women Poets
- Feminine Qalandar in Persian Poetry
- Feminine Voice in Classical Persian Poetry
- Feminist Poetics
- Fiction Writer Women Poets
- From Boldness to Restraint: The Waning Audacity in the Poetry of Munīr Tāhā
- Furūgh Farrukhʹzād
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- Madīna Gülgün
- Mahsatī Ganjavī’s Quatrains: Authenticity, Attribution, and New Discoveries
- Mahʹkāmah Muhassis Lāhijānī
- Maryam Sāvujī
- Medieval Women Poets of Iran
- Mihrī Hiravī, an Audacious Poet in the Age of Veiled Speech
- Mihrī Hiravī; An Audacious Poet in the Age of Discretion
- Modern Poetic Expressions
- Mughal Female Poets
- Munīrah Taha: The First Female Lyricist
- Mānā Āqāyī: The Poet of Ideas
- Mānā Āqāʾī
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- Narrative as a Rhetorical Device in Līmah Āfshīd’s “The Old Woman”
- Nayyirah Saʿīdī, a Poet in Search of Women’s Rights
- Networking Women Poets: Connecting Furūgh Farrukhʹzād and Adrienne Rich
- Nūr Arfā
- Nūr Jahān Baygum (1577–1645), Queen of India, Poet of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Nūrī Sayyārah Gīlānī (Nūr Arfaʿ 1286–1353/1907–1974)
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- Pahlavi Women Poets
- Pakistani Women Poets Writing in Persian
- Parvīn Dawlatābādī, the Poet of Childhood Innocence
- Parvīn Dawlatābādī: The Poet of the Literary Elite
- Parvīn Iʿtisāmī and Women’s Rights?
- Parvīn Iʿtisāmī’s Eloquent Response to Patriarchy*
- Parvīn Iꜥtisāmī, A Major Persian Poet for All Time
- Parī Khān Khānum
- Persianate Jewish Women Poets
- Persian Mystic Women Poets
- Poetic Elements in the Works of Badrī Tundarī
- Politics of Gender and Desire in the Persian Qasīdah
- Polyphony in the Poetry of Rawyā Taftī
- Post-Revolution Iranian Women Poets
- Post-Revolution Poetry in Iran
- Public Reforms, Private Struggles: The Poetry and Activism of Malakah Iʿtizādī
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- Safavid Women Poets
- Self-Expression in Women’s Poetry
- Shahnāz Aʿlāmī
- Shams Jahān [Shamsī] Kasmāʾī Yazdī
- Shiꜥr-i Sipīd in Modern Women’s Poetry
- Shukūh Qāsimniyā’s Poetry in the Geography of Iranian Cultural Memory
- Sipīdah Kāshānī
- South Asian Female Poets
- Study of the Genres of Women’s Poetry
- Sīmīn Bihbahānī
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- Tajik Women Poets
- Tazkirahs of Premodern Women Poets
- Theory of Structure and Form in Persian Female Poetry
- The Feminine Poetic Style
- The Feminine, the Political, and the Linguistic in the Poetry of Sipīdah Judayrī
- The Gender of Poetry
- The History of Women’s Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Present
- The Image of the Beloved in Hayrān Khānum Dunbulī’s Epic Poetry
- The Influence of Persian Novels on Iranian Women’s Poetry
- The Life and Poetry of Gulrukhsor Safieva: A Quest for Tajik Identity
- The Love Poetry of Mīnā Asadī
- The Miracle of Parvīn
- The Miracle of Parvīn
- The Necessity of Re-Editing Jahān Malik Khātūn’s Dīvān
- The Overlap of Life and Death in Shahīn Hannānah’s Poetry
- The Rhetoric of Loneliness and Its Manifestations in Shahrʹbānū Baygum’s Safarʹnāmah-ʾi hajj
- The Social Poetry of Mīnā Asadī
- The Unsung Poetry of Kurdish Women
- Tāhirah Saffārzādah’s Tanīn dar diltā and the Avant-Garde Poetry in Persian Literature
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- Women and Conceptual Metaphors in the Poetry of Humayrā Nakhat Dastgīrʹzādah
- Women Poets and Ideology
- Women Poets and Persian Literary Canon
- Women Poets and the Assertion of Agency in the Supreme Leader’s Annual Poetry Reading Nights
- Women Poets and the Tūdah Party
- Women Poets of Kerman 1 (Classical/ Early Modern)
- Women Poets of Kerman: Part One – From the 7th/13th to the 13th/19th Century AH/CE
- Women Poets of Sabk-i Hindī
- Women Poets of the Constitutional Era
- Women Poets of the Iranian Revolution
- Women Poets of the Iran-Iraq War
- Women’s Poetry and Ecofeminism
- Women’s Poetry of the Late Pahlavi Era
- Writing at the Edge: Life, Love, and Death in Shahīn Hannānah’s Poetry
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- Zandukht Shīrāzī
- Zhālah Isfahānī
- Zhālah Isfahānī, Iranian Poet, Scholar, and Activist
- Zhālah Qāʾim Maqāmī and the Functions of Poetry*
- Zhālah Qāʾim Maqāmī, Composing Poetry without an Audience
- Zhīlā Musāʿid: Poetry at the Crossroads of Myth and Modernity
- Zi Khi Shīn in/as Persian Letters
- Zīb al-Nisāʾ Makhfī’s Ambitious Lyric Voice: “Conquering the Realm of Verse, with Ease”
