Diwan (poésie)thumb|Des scribes moghols au travail, en train de recueillir des « diwans ». Un diwan ou divan (en دیوان, divân ; en ديوان, dīwān) est un recueil de poésie ou de prose dans les littératures arabe, persane, ottomane et ourdou. Néanmoins son sens précis varie considérablement selon les littératures, les zones géographiques et les époques. Appliqué à la littérature arabe de l'époque classique, le diwân désigne principalement le recueil exhaustif de l'œuvre d'un poète, tandis qu'appliqué à la littérature persane de la même époque, le divan constitue un recueil anthologique des poèmes d'un auteur, qui n'inclut en général pas ses longs poèmes (de la forme mathnawi).
NedîmAhmed Effendi, better known by his mahlas (nom de plume) Nedîm (Ottoman Turkish: نديم; c. 1681–1730), was an Ottoman lyric poet of the Tulip Period. He achieved his greatest fame during the reign of Ahmed III. He was known for his slightly decadent, even licentious poetry often couched in the most staid of classical formats, but also for bringing the folk poetic forms of türkü and şarkı into the court. Not much is known about Nedîm's early life, except for what can be inferred from records of the time.
Urdu poetryUrdu poetry ( ) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan. According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu which are Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. 1869), Mir Anees (d.1874), Allama Iqbal (d. 1938) and Josh Malihabadi (d.1982). The language of Urdu reached its pinnacle under the British Raj, and it received official status. All famous writers of Urdu language including Ghalib and Iqbal were given British scholarships.
FuzouliFuzûlî ou Fuzouli (en فضولی / Füzuli) ou Fouzouli (en فضولی ; en turc moderne : Fuzûlî) ou Mehmet Süleymanoglu Fuzulî est le nom de plume du poète azérophone (l'azéri était sa langue maternelle), persanophone, arabophone et turcophone Muhammad bin Suleyman (en arabe : ar, en turc : Mehmet bin Süleyman) (vers 1494 - 1556). Il est souvent considéré comme un des plus grands contributeurs à la tradition du divan dans la littérature turque, mais il écrivait en fait ces recueils de poèmes (dîvân) dans trois langues différentes : turc azéri, persan et arabe.
Persianate societyA Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art and/or identity. The term "Persianate" is a neologism credited to Marshall Hodgson. In his 1974 book, The Venture of Islam: The expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods, he defined it thus: "The rise of Persian had more than purely literary consequences: it served to carry a new overall cultural orientation within Islamdom.... Most of the more local languages of high culture that later emerged among Muslims.