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DÄ«wÄn-i ghazaliyÄt-i AsÄ«r-i ShahristÄnÄ«
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Persian poetry of the pre-modern era is divided into three successive styles, each belonging to a different period: KhurÄsÄnÄ«, Ê¿IrÄqÄ« and HindÄ«. The HindÄ« styleâs name comes from Safavid times, during which it developed; poets no longer enjoyed the shahâs patronage, so that many of them went to India, where Persian poetry had flourished from Ghaznavid times (11th-12th cent.). The HindÄ« style is often regarded as being of a lesser kind than the KhurÄsÄnÄ« or Ê¿IrÄqÄ« ones, but has the merit of having ended the decline that Persian poetry was suffering from at the time and also, by its accessible language and subject matter, of having brought poetry within reach of the ordinary man. The poems of AsÄ«r ShahristÄnÄ« (11th/17th cent.), whose ghazals are published here, are written in the HindÄ« style. Popular in India, even if he never went there, their appreciation in Iran has varied.