Kholaseh al-Ashaar va Zobdat al-Afkar (Yazd and Kerman Section)

• Persian Title: خلاصه الاشعار و زبده الافکار (بخش یزد و کرمان و نواحی آن)
• Transliterated Title: Khulāṣat al-Ashʿār wa Zubdat al-Afkār (Qismat-i Yazd va Kirmān va nawāḥī-yi ān)
• English Title: The Quintessence of Poems and the Essence of Thoughts (Yazd and Kerman Section)
• Author: Mīr Taqī al-Dīn Kāshānī (alive in 1016 A.H.)
• Editor: Sayyid ʿAlī Mīrāfaẓlī
• Language: Persian
• ISBN: 978-600-203-124-2
• Publication Year: 2016
• Pages: 446
• Format: PDF
• Category: Persian Language and Literature
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 298

【Summary】

Mīr Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Kāshānī—known as Mīr Tadhkira and using the pen name Dhikrī—was a prominent Safavid poet and prose writer. Over nearly forty years (976–1016 A.H.), he compiled Khulāṣat al-Ashʿār wa Zubdat al-Afkār, one of the largest Persian biographical anthologies of poets.

The complete work consists of an introduction in four chapters, four main divisions, a conclusion, and an appendix, spanning six volumes and covering approximately 870 poets from early figures to the author’s contemporaries. The concluding section alone includes biographies of more than 410 poets of the tenth century A.H., organized into twelve parts, each devoted to a specific city or geographical region.

The present volume corresponds to the eighth part of the concluding section (khātima) and contains the biographies and selected poems of forty poets, arranged in two chapters. The first chapter is devoted to poets from Yazd and its surrounding areas, including Bāfq, Abrqūh, Ardastān, and Zavāra. The second chapter covers poets from Kerman, Bam, Sistan, Kabul, Badakhshan, the Deccan, Kashmir, and other regions of the Indian subcontinent, making this volume an important source for the study of Persian literary networks across Iran and South Asia.