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New Blog Post: The Poet as Lover, the Divine as Beloved: Understanding Key Archetypes

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The Poet as Lover, the Divine as Beloved: Understanding Key Archetypes

In classical Persian poetry—and its later global echoes—the central relationship is often not between two mortals but between the poet as lover (ʿāshiq) and the Divine as beloved (maḥbūb). This archetypal pairing transforms every ghazal, masnavi, and quatrain into both a love poem and a mystical manual. Below, we unpack the…