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Heroic, Romantic, Didactic: The Many Faces of the Masnavi Form

The masnavi (mathnawī) is one of the most versatile narrative poetic forms in Persian—and, by extension, Urdu and Ottoman—literature. Defined by its rhyming couplets (AA BB CC…), the masnavi can stretch for thousands of lines, enabling poets to weave grand epics, intimate romances, or profound moral discourses. In its long history,…