The
masnavi (
Persian: معنوی, also transcribed as
mathnawi;
Turkish:
mesnevî) is a
poetic form in
Persian and
Ottoman literature.
The
masnavi consists of an indefinite number of
couplets, with the
rhyme scheme aa/bb/cc, etc.
By far the most well-known
masnavi is the
Masnavi-i Ma'navi of the 13th-century Persian
Sufi poet
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, which consists of six books of poems containing more than 25,000 verses. Many other poets, however—such as the Ottoman poet
Fuzûlî, whose
Leylâ ve Mecnun was written as a
masnavi—have used the form.
Indeed, throughout the Perso-centric Islamicate world, the masnavi has been a tremendously popular poetic form. In India it is found especially in Persian, Dakani and Urdu. In India the form has tended to tell two types of stories: the romantic tale and the panegyric of kings.
fɒːɾˈsiː in Perso-Arabic script (Nasta`liq style):
Pronunciation: [fɒːɾˈsiː]
Spoken in: Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and areas of Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
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Poetry (from the Greek "ποίησις", poiesis, a "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible
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Persian literature (Persian: ادبیات پارسی) spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost.
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poetry of the Ottoman Empire, or Ottoman Divan poetry, is fairly little known outside of modern Turkey, which forms the heartland of what was once the Ottoman Empire.
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A
couplet is a pair of lines of verse. Some cultures have decorative traditions associated with them.
Couplets in Western poetry
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For example "abab" indicates a four-line stanza in which the first and third lines rhyme, as do the second and fourth.
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Masnavi or Masnavi-I Ma'navi (Persian: مثنوی معنوی), also written Mathnawi or Mesnevi, written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the celebrated Persian Sufi saint and poet, is one of the best
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Sufism is a mystic tradition within Islam that encompasses a diverse range of beliefs and practices dedicated to Divine love and the cultivation of the elements of the Divine within the individual human being.
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Fużūlī (فضولی) was the pen name of the poet Muhammad bin Suleyman (محمد بن سليمان) (c. 1483 – 1556).
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The madman of Layla - in Arabic مجنون ليلى (Majnun layla) or قيس وليلى (Qays and Layla), in Persian:
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