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Divan of Magtymguly

Divan of Magtymguly (Magtymgulynyň diwany), is the 18th-century Turkmen collected body of lyric poetry by poet and thinker Magtymguly Pyragy, inscribed on the UNESCO register in 2023.

Divan of Mehdi Akhavan Sales

The Divan of Mehdi Akhavan Sales (دیوان مهدی اخوان ثالث) is the collected poetry of the Iranian poet Mehdi Akhavan Sales (1928–1990), known for the collection Zemestan.

Divan of Mohammad Hossein Shahriar

The Divan of Mohammad Hossein Shahriar is the collected poetry of Shahriar, written in both Persian and his native Azeri Turkic, with the ghazal the dominant form.

Divan of Muhibbî

The Divan of Muhibbî (Dîvân-ı Muhibbî) is the collected Turkish poetry of Ottoman sultan Süleyman I, who wrote under the pen name Muhibbî throughout his reign.

Divan of Muhtasham Kashani

The Divan of Muhtasham Kashani (دیوان محتشم کاشانی) is the collected Persian poetry of the Safavid-era poet Muhtasham Kashani, about 13,000 verses, best known for his elegy on Imam Husayn at Karbala.

Divan of Nasimi

The Divan of Nasimi (Nəsimi divanı) is the collected poetry of Imadaddin Nasimi, the Hurufi poet regarded as the founder of the school of philosophical poetry in Azerbaijani.

Divan of Nasir Khusraw

The Divan of Nasir Khusraw (دیوان ناصر خسرو) is the collected Persian poetry of Nasir Khusraw, the eleventh-century Ismaili poet and Fatimid missionary of Khurasan.

Divan of Naziri Nishapuri

The Divan of Naziri Nishapuri (دیوان نظیری نیشابوری) is the collected Persian poetry of poet Naziri Nishapuri, who compiled about 12,000 verses before his death around 1612.

Divan of Nima Yooshij

The Divan of Nima Yooshij (دیوان نیما یوشیج) is the collected poems of the Iranian poet Nima Yooshij, founder of modern Persian poetry, including free verse and Mazandarani quatrains.

Divan of Parvin E'tesami

The Divan of Parvin E'tesami (دیوان پروین اعتصامی) is the collected poetry of Iranian poet Parvin E'tesami, first published in Tehran in 1935, the only book she published in her lifetime.

Divan of Qaani Shirazi

The Divan of Qaani Shirazi (دیوان قاآنی شیرازی) is the collected Persian poetry of Mirza Habib-Allah Shirazi, known as Qa'ani (1808–1854), the greatest poet of the Qajar period.

Divan of Rudaki

The Divan of Rudaki (دیوان رودکی) is the modern collected edition of the poetry of Rudaki (858–941), the first major New Persian poet, at the Samanid court.

Divan of Sa'ib Tabrizi

The Divan of Sa'ib Tabrizi (دیوان صائب تبریزی) is the collected Persian poetry of Ṣāʾeb Tabrizi, the leading Safavid lyric poet of the Indian style.

Divan of Saadi

The Divan of Saadi (دیوان سعدی) is the collected lyric and occasional poetry of the 13th-century Persian poet Saadi of Shiraz, compiled about four decades after his death.

Divan of Sanai

The Divan of Sanai (دیوان سنایی) is the collection of shorter poems, ghazals, qasidas, and rubaiyats by the Persian poet Sanai of Ghazna, who died in 1131.

Divan of Shams Tabrizi

The Divan of Shams Tabrizi, or Divan-e Kabir, is the collection of lyric Persian poetry written by Rumi and named for his companion Shams al-Din of Tabriz.

Divan of Sohrab Sepehri

The Divan of Sohrab Sepehri is the collected poetical work of the Iranian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980), best known through the 1978 compendium Hašt ketāb.

Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir

The Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir (دیوان سلطان احمد جلایر) is an illuminated manuscript of poems by Sultan Ahmad Jalayir, made around 1400 and held in Washington, DC.

Divan of Suzani Samarqandi

The Divan of Suzani Samarqandi (دیوان سوزنی سمرقندی) is the collected Persian poetry of Suzani, a 12th-century poet known for satires written at the courts of Samarqand and Bukhara.

Divan of Ubayd Zakani

The Divan of Ubayd Zakani (دیوان عبید زاکانی) is the collected Persian poetry of Ubayd Zakani, a 14th-century satirist from Qazvin, chiefly qasidas, ghazals, and masnawis.

Divan of Vahshi Bafqi

The Divan of Vahshi Bafqi (دیوان وحشی بافقی) is the collected Persian poetry of Vahshi Bafqi, a 16th-century Safavid poet famed for his ghazals and vasokht style.

Divan of Vesal Shirazi

The Divan of Vesal Shirazi (دیوان وصال شیرازی) is the collected poetry of Mirza Mohammad Shafiʿ Vesal Shirazi, a Qajar-era poet and calligrapher of Shiraz who died in 1845/46.

Divan of Zahir Faryabi

The Divan of Zahir Faryabi (دیوان ظهیر فاریابی) is the collected Persian poetry of Zahir Faryabi, a 12th-century court panegyrist who died in 1201 at Tabriz.

Divan poetry

Divan poetry (Divan şiiri) is the classical Ottoman poetic tradition, written in Ottoman Turkish on the aruz meter from the late 13th to the 19th century.

Divan-i Hikmet

The Divan-i Hikmet (دیوان حکمت) is a collection of mystical poems, or hikmets, attributed to the Sufi poet Khoja Ahmad Yasawi (d. 1166), founder of the Yasawiyya order.

Dîvân-ı Bâkî

Dîvân-ı Bâkî (دیوان باقی) is the collected Ottoman Turkish poetry of Bâkî (1526/27–1600), the "Sultan of Poets" of Süleyman the Magnificent's reign, gathering gazels, kasides, and other verse forms.

Dîvân-ı Fuzûlî

Dîvân-ı Fuzûlî (دیوان فضولی, also rendered Divan-i Fuzuli) is the collected lyric poetry of the sixteenth-century poet Fuzûlî, whose Turkish divan of about three hundred ghazals made his fame.

Dîvân-ı Gâlib

Dîvân-ı Gâlib (Dîvân-ı Şeyh Gâlib) is the collected Ottoman Turkish poetry of Şeyh Gâlib (1757–1799), regarded as the last great master of classical Divan poetry.

Dîvân-ı Nedîm

Dîvân-ı Nedîm is the collected divan of the Ottoman poet Nedîm (c. 1681-1730), whose plain, Istanbul-centered verse made him the poetic voice of the Tulip Era.

Dîvân-ı Nef'î

Dîvân-ı Nef'î (دیوان نفعی) is the collected Turkish divan of the Ottoman poet Nef'î, arranged by the poet himself and noted for its large share of panegyric qasidas.