A 'qasida', which means an encomium, first originated in Arabic literature and then became popular in the Persianate literary cosmos to which Bijapur and Golconda belonged.
Today s guest blog is jointly written by Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (Leiden University PhD candidate) and Asim Saeed (Independent Researcher) Siyavush Beg Gurji (c.1536–1616), a brilliant but elusive maestro from the Safavid era, has intrigued scholars for half a decade. Initiated by Anthony Welch in findings published nearly 50 years ago, some.