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Masnawī are usually associated with the didactic and romantic genres, but are not limited to them. There is a great variety among Persian masnawī, but there are several conventions that can help a reader recognize a masnawī poem. Most masnawī have a distinction between the introductory and body
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and follow a specific meter. Arabic mathnawi (or muzdawidj) poetry is very similar to the Persian, Urdu, and Turkish equivalents, though with one major difference: most muzdawidj poems follow an aaa/bbb/ccc pattern, while the other mathnawi poems follow an aa/bb/cc pattern.
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Modern Urdu masnawī began in the 13th/19th century, during a time of literary reform. Masnawī as a whole became much shorter, and the traditional meters stopped being observed. These masnawī deal more with everyday subjects, as well as providing a medium for
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broke away from the Dakkanī tradition. In the 12th/18th century, romantic masnawī became very popular. Another new convention that appeared in middle Urdu masnawī was authors using their own personal experiences as a subject for their poem.
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stories. Early Urdu masnawī were influenced by Dakkanī literature, as well as Persian mat̲h̲nawī. Because of this influence, many early Urdu masnawī were translations of Persian masnawī, although there are some original early Urdu masnawīs.
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Bencheneb, M. "Muzdawid̲j̲." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Edited by: P. Bearman , Th. Bianquis , C.E. Bosworth , E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2010. Brill Online. Augustana. 8 April 2010
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of 11 syllables, occasionally ten. While the length of a masnawī is not prescribed and is therefore unlimited, most of the better known masnawī are within a range of 2,000–9,000 bayts (
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Early Urdu masnawī began in the 11th/17th century. In the beginning of this period, many masnawī were religious in nature, but then grew to include romantic, heroic, and even
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Swahili Islamic Poetry: Introduction : The celebration of Mohammed's birthday ; Swahili Islamic cosmology. (1971). Niederlande: Brill.
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Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. "Concerning Music and Dancing As Aids to the Religious Life." Trans. Claud Field. The Alchemy of Happiness. Dodo, 1909. 27–32. Print.
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Turkish mathnawi began developing in the 8th/14th century. Persian mathnawi influenced Turkish authors as many Turkish mathnawī were, at first, creative
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Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam. (1984). Vereinigtes Königreich: University of California Press.
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of the Prophet, reflections on the value of poetry, and occasionally a description of an object as a significant
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Turkish mathnawī are strongly driven by their plot, and are usually categorized into three
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Urdu masnawī are usually divided into three categories- early, middle, and late.
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and adaptations of Persian mathnawī. The oldest known Turkish mathnawī is a
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Friedlander, Ira. The Whirling Dervishes. New York: Macmillan, 1975. Print.
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legalists find the practice unconscionable, the Sufi scholar and jurist
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Certain Persian masnawī have had a special religious significance in
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Middle Urdu masnawī became prominent in the 12th/18th century, when
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Bruijn, J.T.P. de; Flemming, B.; Rahman, Munibur (8 April 2010).
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has been one of the expert poets of Persian masnawi.
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cultures. Certain Persian mat̲h̲nawī poems, such as
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Index

Arabic
Persian
poem
rhyming couplets
meter
syllables
couplets
rhyme scheme
Persian
Arabic
Turkish
Kurdish
Urdu
Rumi
Masnavi-e Ma’navi
Sufism
Ghazali
ibn Arabi
Arabic
Abbasid era
monorhymes
alliteration
meter
verses
Sāmānid period
Iranian
verse form
counterpart
paragraphs
eulogy

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