Diwan-i ghazaliyat-i Asir-i Shahristani

Persian poetry of the pre-modern era is divided into three successive styles, each belonging to a different period: Khurasani, ?Iraqi and Hindi. The Hindi style's name comes from Safavid times, during which it developed; poets no longer enjoyed the shah's patronage, so that many of them went to India, where Persian poetry had flourished from Ghaznavid times (11th-12th cent.). The Hindi style is of...