Diwan-i Mukhlis-i Kashani

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 is called such because in 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 since Ghaznavid times (11th-12th cent.). The Hindi sty...