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Zhālah Isfahānī, Iranian Poet, Scholar, and Activist
Figure 1. Portrait of Zhālah Isfahānī. Image source: Jaleh Esfahani Cultural Foundation. The poet known throughout her career as Zhālah Isfahānī (1300–1386/1921–2007) was born in Isfahan and officiallyregistered as Itil Sultānī. In her autobiography…
October 31, 2025
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Zhālah Qāʾim Maqāmī, Composing Poetry without an Audience
Zhālah Qāʾim-Maqāmī and the Omission of the Audience in Favour of Feminine Poetry ʿĀlam-Tāj Qāʾim Maqāmī, who wrote under the penname “Zhālah,” is one of the most important contemporary women poets, and arguably the pioneer…
May 12, 2025
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Zhālah Qāʾim-Maqāmī and the Functions of Poetry*
This article engages with a few aspects of one of Persia’s best women poets, Zhālah Qāʾim-Maqāmī (1883-1946), who uses poetry not for the expected usual reasons such as invoking lyricism, descriptions of nature, or mystical…
May 12, 2025
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Zhīlā Musāʿid: Poetry at the Crossroads of Myth and Modernity
Figure 1: Zhīlā Musāʿid in her early forties, in Mīrzā Āqā ʿAskarī, “Rābitah-am bā jahān az tarīq-i kalimāt Ast” [My relationship with the world is through words], Muhājir 8, no. 70 (Ābān 1370/ November 1991):…
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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- 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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- 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”
