The Shahr-Āshūb Quatrains of Ḥasan Dehlavī
Document Type : pajoohesh
Author
10.22081/jap.2025.78370
Abstract
Amīr Najm al-Dīn Ḥasan Dehlavī (d. 738/1337) is counted among the renowned Persian poets of India. His Dīvān, which comprises qaṣīdas, ghazals, qiṭ‛as, and quatrains, has been published several times in both India and Iran. Based on our investigation, the Dīvān contains 166 quatrains, among which a number of shahr-āshūb quatrains can be identified. A shahr-āshūb poem is a composition describing trades and professions, typically couched in the form of love poetry. The late Aḥmad Gulchīn Ma‛ānī, in his book Shahr-āshūb dar Shi‛r-e Fārsī dedicated to this very genre, made no mention of Ḥasan Dehlavī’s quatrains, and their absence is also felt in subsequent scholarship. The present study publishes seventeen shahr-āshūb quatrains of Ḥasan Dehlavī on the basis of both printed and manuscript sources of his poetry. More than half of the quatrains cited here are missing from the printed editions.
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