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Shahnāz Aʿlāmī
Introduction The question mark after A‘lāmī’s date of birth might seem strange given the fact she lived until as recently as 2003; but in an interview granted to and recorded by Hamīd Ahmadī as part…
September 24, 2025
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16 min read
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Shams Jahān [Shamsī] Kasmāyī Yazdī
Introduction Shams-i Kasmāyī is a prominent figure in contemporary Persian poetry; however, her poetic language and thought have not received considerable attention, for various reasons. Although her ancestry can be traced back to Gilan and…
May 12, 2025
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Shukūh Qāsimniyā’s Poetry in the Geography of Iranian Cultural Memory
Introduction Shukūh Qāsimniyā, whose original name is Fātimah Hamadānī Qāsimniyā, is an Iranian author of children’s fiction and poetry who has been actively engaged in a wide range of creative endeavours, including poetry, fiction, adaptations…
May 12, 2025
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Tāhirah Saffārzādah’s Tanīn dar diltā and the Avant-Garde Poetry in Persian Literature
Introduction Tāhirah Saffārzādah (1938–2008) stands as a distinctive and transformative figure in modern Persian literature. Known for her revolutionary and religious poetry, she has often been categorized as a poet of ideology and resistance. Yet…
September 24, 2025
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Tazkirahs of Premodern Women Poets
The ancient Iranian king Bahrām Gūr, hero of Nizāmī’s romance, Haft paykar, was considered to be the first Persian poet with one extant verse to his name. This tidbit of information was mentioned by ‘Awfi,…
May 12, 2025
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The Feminine, the Political, and the Linguistic in the Poetry of Sipīdah Judayrī
Sipīdah Judayrī (b. 1355/1976) is an Iranian poet, literary critic, and translator whose body of work includes eight poetry collections, a short story collection, and an anthology of her poems. This entry offers a contextualizing…
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 HQ) to the present (2023 CE/1402 HS). This study introduces women…
September 25, 2025
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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…
November 24, 2025
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39 min read
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The Life and Poetry of Gulrukhsor Safieva: A Quest for Tajik Identity
Introduction This article has two objectives. It casts a look at the life and creative contributions of the Tajik poetess Gulrukhsor Safieva, as well as shows how Safieva, in an Islamic milieu suffused with socialist…
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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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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S
- 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”
