Interaction between Iran and India’s Literary currents During Safavid rule

Abstract

Without any doubt, poetry has its own specific lingual and aesthetic features in each period of time. But
sometimes the differences between the lingual and aesthetic features of a poetry belongs to a period is too
much rather than another piece of poetry of another period that may lead to misunderstanding or even
reject and denial of it. In Indian style, or the poetic style of the 10th through the 13th centuries after Hegira
(A.D. 16th to 19th centuries), which was a literary current in Iran and India, we can see some innovations
in language and aesthetics of Persian poetry. This innovation was the result of the creativity and
imagination of Persian poets in both of these vast and cultured countries in which its reflection could be
seen in the mirror of literary and rhetorical works belongs to that era. The study of this works shows that
while the Safavid rule in Iran and the Mughals reigned in India, two main trends of rhetoric were formed
in Iran and India. The first, was relied on Arabic literary works and the second, was influenced by Indian
rhetoric. The works related to first group were mostly reactionary and had no new concept. But the
simultaneous works that composed in India, - which was both influenced by Indian and Persian/Arabic
literature and rhetoric, had Significant innovations that will be discussed in a case study analysis.