Poetry
دیوان
Not translated into English
Abdul Ali Mustaghni · 1955
Synopsis
The divan of Mostaghni, printed in Kabul more than twenty years after his death. It consists mainly of ghazals in the so-called Indian style, with a few poems celebrating modern progress, and it is by these that the Encyclopaedia Iranica distinguishes him from contemporaries who remained faithful to tradition alone.
Context
The divan appeared in Kabul in 1955, in 1334 of the solar calendar. Another collection, Gulzār-e ašʿār, brought together in 1974 his poems in strophic forms, qasidas and quatrains. Iranica, which names him ʿAbd-al-Ḡanī, ranks him among the few poets of his time to have sung of progress, alongside a body of work that remained for the most part in the Indian style.
Who it is for
Ghazals in Persian, untranslated. It helps to know what the Indian style is, that manner of nesting images inherited from Bidel.
Prizes and reception
No prize. A second collection, in strophic forms, appeared in 1974, and the Iranica cites him among the poets of progress.