Kholaseh al-Ashaar va Zobdat al-Afkar (Qazvin, Gilan, and Dar al-Marz Section)

• Persian Title: خلاصه الاشعار و زبده الافکار (بخش قزوین، گیلان و دارالمرز و نواحی آن)
• Transliterated Title: Khulāṣat al-Ashʿār wa Zubdat al-Afkār (Qismat-i Qazvīn, Gīlān va Dār al-Marz va nawāḥī-yi ān)
• English Title: The Quintessence of Poems and the Essence of Thoughts (Qazvin, Gilan, and Dār al-Marz Section)
• Author: Mīr Taqī al-Dīn Kāshānī (alive until 1016 A.H.)
• Editors: Sayyid Muḥammad Dabīr-Siyāqī; Mahdī Malik Muḥammadī
• Language: Persian
• ISBN: 978-600-203-138-9
• Publication Year: 2017
• Pages: 229
• Format: PDF
• Category: Persian Language and Literature
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 308

【Summary】

Mīr Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Kāshānī—known as Mīr Tadhkira and using the pen name Dhikrī—compiled Khulāṣat al-Ashʿār wa Zubdat al-Afkār over nearly forty years (976–1016 A.H.). This vast biographical anthology comprises an introduction in four chapters, four main divisions, a conclusion, and a supplement, spanning six volumes and covering approximately 870 poets from earlier periods to the author’s contemporaries.

The concluding section (khātima) alone includes biographies of more than 410 poets of the tenth century A.H., organized into twelve parts, each devoted to a particular city or geographical region. The present volume contains the fifth and sixth parts of the conclusion, presenting biographical entries and poetic samples of 25 poets from the royal capital of Qazvin and 18 poets from Gilan, Dār al-Marz, and surrounding frontier regions, all contemporaries of the author. This regional focus provides valuable insight into the literary life of Safavid Iran’s political center and its northern borderlands.