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Poetic Elements in the Works of Badrī Tundarī
Introduction Classical Persian literature, up until the Constitutional era, is predominantly patriarchal, with women primarily objectified as beloved figures or symbols of beauty, while their roles as intellectuals or pioneers of literary styles and movements…
August 6, 2025
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Polyphony in the Poetry of Rawyā Taftī
Introduction Rawyā Taftī [Roya Tafti] is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Iranian poetry, emerging from the postmodern literary scene of the 1370s/1990s alongside poets influenced by Rizā Barāhanī and the “Language Poetry…
May 25, 2025
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Public Reforms, Private Struggles: The Poetry and Activism of Malakah Iʿtizādī
Malakah Iꜥtizādī (1306–1367/1928–1989),1She was born to Muhammad Bāqir Iꜥtizādī, also known as Afkhām al-Saltanah. Her mother’s name was Aqdas al-Muluk Amīr Yaʿqūbī. Uvays, Ilāhah and Parnīʾān were her siblings. Also, in the endnotes added to…
August 17, 2025
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Qudsiyah Ihtishāmī
Qudsiyah Ihtishāmī, born Habībah Baygum (AH 1320–1402/1288–1360/1902–1981), was the daughter of a certain ꜥAlī -Muhammad. While information about her early life and family remains scarce, her husband, ꜥAlī Akbar Ihtishāmī, has a more extensively documented…
May 12, 2025
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Rābiʿah Quzdārī: The Vanguard of Women’s Poetry
Introduction Rābiꜥah 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….
August 17, 2025
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Reading (for) Dissent in Maymanat Mīrsādiqī’s Red Book of Poetry
Introduction Maymanat Zulqadr (Mīrsādiqī) (b. 1316/1937) is a prominent and well-known contemporary poet. For a period in her career, she published her poems under the pseudonyms ‘Āzādah’ and ‘Ānāhīt.’1The author wishes to express gratitude to…
May 12, 2025
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Ruzā Jamālī’s Innovations in Contemporary Persian Poetry
Introduction Over the past century, modern Iranian poetry has witnessed various poetic movements, some of which were short-lived and gave way to other poetic trends. A significant distinguishing feature of modern Persian poetry, in contrast…
May 12, 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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C
- 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
- Females Poetics in Classical Persian Litarture
- Female Identity and Poetry
- 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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K
L
M
- 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] Kasmāyī 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 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, Composing Poetry without an Audience
- Zhālah Qāʾim-Maqāmī and the Functions of Poetry*
- 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”
