Poetry
دیوان
Not translated into English
Sufi Ashqari · 1979
Synopsis
The Persian collection of Sufi Ashqari, which the Encyclopaedia Iranica dates to 1979. It sees in it the work of a poet of the so-called Indian style, the one that embeds images within one another, inherited from Bidel, and which Kabul still cultivates in the mid-twentieth century, alongside the old masters and the new paths.
Context
The Encyclopaedia Iranica cites the divan of Sufi Ashqari, printed in the capital in 1358 of the solar Hijra calendar, in its list of the Kabuli heirs of the Indian style, alongside Bitab, Azad Kaboli, Farhat and Nadim. The collection thus appeared the year before its author's death. No source read confirms an edition of 1998 compiled by Abdol-Hamid Wahabzada.
Who it is for
Poems in Persian, with no translation. It helps to know a little of the Indian manner of Persian poetry, inherited from Bedil.
Prizes and reception
No prize. Iranica lists him among the Kabuli poets of the Indian style in the twentieth century.