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Networking Women Poets: Connecting Furūgh Farrukhzād and Adrienne Rich
Introduction During the 1960s and 1970s, female poets relied heavily on translation to establish connections with one another. The primary objective of the first and second-wave feminism in translation was to articulate connections between female…
December 5, 2024
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Nūr Jahān Baygum (1577–1645), Queen of India, Poet of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Nūr Jahān Baygum was one of the beloved and powerful wives of Nūr al-Dīn Jahāngīr (1569–1627), the Mughal emperor of India, and the first lady of his harem. Her date of birth is recorded as…
December 4, 2024
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Of the Sins of Furūgh Farrukhzād
“Sin” (Gunah) is probably the most well-known poem of Forugh Farrokhzad, though it is not one of her best, even in comparison with most of the poems before the period of Another Birth (Rebirth). Apparently…
July 23, 2024
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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…
December 4, 2024
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Parvīn Dawlatābādī: The Poet of the Literary Elite
Figure 1. Photo of the young Parvīn Dawlatābādī (Courtesy of Shīvā Dawlatābādī, taken February 7, 1955 in Paris). The Life and Works of Dawlatābādī1“Originally written in Persian, this article is translated by the editorial…
December 4, 2024
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Parvīn I‘tisāmī and Women’s Rights?
Introduction In the realm of feminist Persian poetry, certain names are frequently encountered, including Tāhirah Qurrat al-‘Ayn (AH 1230–1268/1817–1852), Zandukht Shīrāzī (1288–1331/1909–1953), Simin Behbahani (1306–1393/1927–2014), Forough Farrokhzad (1313–1345/1934–1967), and, more recently, Zhālih ‘Ālamtāj Qā’im-Maqāmī (1262–1326/1883–1947)….
December 5, 2024
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Parvīn Iʿtisāmī’s Eloquent Response to Patriarchy*
Parvīn Iʿtisāmī’s Dīvān contains a short poem in which she explicitly states that “Parvīn is not a man”: The heart must be kept polished from the dust of futile thoughts so that the demon knows…
December 4, 2024
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Parvīn-i I‘tisāmī, A Major Persian Poet for All Time
Parvīn I‘tisāmī, along with Īraj Mīrzā and Poet-Laureate Bahār, was the most prominent poet of early twentieth-century Iran, the form of whose poems was generally in the neoclassical style. And along with the latter two,…
November 29, 2024
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- Afghan Women Poets in the Digital Age
- Analyzing Anecdotes in Tazkiras about Mehri Heravi and Introducing New Poems by Her
- Ashraf Meshkuti
- Avangardism in Poetry of Tahirih Saffar Zadeh
- Avangardism in Women Poetry
- Ayishah Afghan
- Azerbaijani Female Poets
- A Commentary on Iranian Women’s Hermetic Poetry: A Gadamerian Approach (Cases: Fīrūzah Mīzānī and Parimāh Avānī)
- A History of Women’s Poetry
- A Lady Without Passport: Rābiʻah among the Islamic Republics
- A Look at the Lover’s Face in the Epic Poems of Hiran Donboli
- A Study on the Content and Form of Badri Tondari’s Poetry
- A Thousand Years of Iranian Women Poetry
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- Celestial Crossings: Reception of Tahirih Qurratu’l-‘Ayn on the Indian Subcontinent
- Childhood in Afsāneh Shabān-Nezhād’s Poetry: Insights from an Iranian Woman Children’s Literature Poet
- Comparative Women Poetry of Iran and Latin America
- Constitution Female Poets
- Contemporary Female Poets of Iran
- Contemporary Feminist Poetry in Iran
- Context and Concept: Early 20th century Women Poets
- Critical Discourse Analysis of Kurdistan Mystical Poems
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- Farangis Shantia
- Farzanah Khujandi
- Fasl-i Bahār Khānum
- Females Poetics in Classical Persian Litarture
- Female Identity and Poetry
- Female Poets and Persian Litarary Canon
- Female Poets of Mughal Court
- Female Poets of Sabk-i Hindi
- Female Poets of Tajikistan
- Female Potery and Ecofeminism
- Feminine Aspects of Modrn Persian Poetics
- Feminine Intervention: Early Qajar Women Poets
- Feminine Voice in Classical Persian Poetry
- Feminin Qalandar in Persian Poetry
- Feminin Self in Persian Poetry
- Feminist Poetics
- Ficition Writer Female Poets
- Furūgh Farrukhzād
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- Madīna Gülgün
- Mahasti Ganjavi
- Mahkameh Muhassis Lahijani
- Mana Aqai
- Marva Nabili
- Maryam Savuji
- Masturah Kurdistani
- Mastura Kurdistani
- Maymanat’s Red Poetry Book: An Analysis of Political Themes in Maymanat Mīrsādiqī’s Poetry
- Medieaval Female Poets of Iran
- Medieaval Iranian Women Poets
- Mehri Heravi, a Audacious Poet in the Age of Veiled Speech
- Mehri Hiravi
- Mina Asadi- Love Poetries
- Mina Asadi- Social Poetries
- Modern Poetic Expressions
- Mughal Female Poets
- Munirah Taha
- Munirah Taha: The First Female Lyricist
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- Padishah Khatoun
- Pahlavi Women Poets
- Pakistani Persian Female Women Poet
- Pakistan Female Persian Poets
- Pari Khan Khanum
- Parvin Dowlatabadi, the Poet of Children’s Innocence
- Parvin Eʿteṣāmi and Women’s Rights
- Parvīn Dawlatābādī: The Poet of the Literary Elite
- Parvīn Iʿtisāmī’s Eloquent Response to Patriarchy*
- Parvīn I‘tisāmī and Women’s Rights?
- Parvīn-i I‘tisāmī, A Major Persian Poet for All Time
- Persianate Jewish Women Poets
- Persian Female Mystic Poets
- Poetic Style of Contemporary Female Poets
- Poets of Iranian Revolution
- Politics of Gender and Desire in the Persian Qasida
- Post-Revolution Iranian Women Poets
- Post-Revolution Poetry in Iran
- Public Reforms, Private Struggles: The Poetry and Activism of Malekeh Etezadi
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- Safavid Female Poets
- Self Expresion in Female Poetry
- Sepidah Kashani
- Shahnāz A‘lāmī
- Shams Kasmāyī
- Shi’r-i Sipid in Modern Female Poetry
- Shokūh Qāsemniyā’s Poetry in the Geography of Iranian Cultural Memory
- Simin Behbahani
- Some Notes on Quatrines and Compendiums of Quatrains of Mahasti Ganjavi
- South Asian Female Poets
- Study of the Genres of Women Poetry
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- Tahirih Saffarzadeh
- Tajik Female Poets
- Tazkirahs of Premodern Women Poets
- Theory of Structure and Form in Persian Female Poetry
- The Aryan Homeland in the Poetry of Gulrukhsor Safieva
- The Chosen Poet: Parvin Dowlatabadi
- The Divan of Jahān Malik Khātūn
- The Epiccal in Female Poetry
- The Feminin Poetic Style
- The Gender of Poetry
- The History of Women’s Poetry: Beginning to the Present
- The Influnce of Persian Novels on Iranian Women Poetry
- The Life and Poetry of Gulrukhsor Safieva: A Quest for Tajik Identity
- The Miracle of Parvin
- The Overlap of Life and Death in Shahīn Hannānah’s Poetry
- The Red Book of Meymanat Poems, the Political Reading of Meymanat Zolqader (Mirsadeghi) Poetry Notebook
- The Rhetoric of Solitude and its Manifestations in Mīrza Khalīl’s Wife Poetic Travelogue
- The Role of Women Poet in 1370s/1990s
- The Tapestry of Childhood in Afsaneh Shabannejad’s Poems: Insights from an Iranian Female Poet of Children’s Literature
- The Unsung Poetry of Kurdish Women
- The Women Poetry in 1990s and 2000s: Plurality and Individuality
- Threshold Poetics
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- Zandokht Shirazi
- Zayb al-Nisa
- Ze Khe Shīn in/as Persian Letters
- Zhalah Isfahani
- Zhaleh Isfahani
- Zhaleh Qa’im Maqami
- Zhaleh ‘Alamtaj
- Zhila Musa’id
- Zhālah Qāʾim-Maqāmī and the Functions of Poetry*
- Zhālah Qā’im Maqāmī, Composing Poetry without an Audience
- Zhīlā Musāʿid [Jila Mossaed]: An Iranian Woman Poet Surrounded by Mythologies
- Zīb al-Nesāʾ Makhfī’s Ambitious Lyric Voice: “Conquering the Realm of Verse, with Ease”
