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Ghazal
(in Arabic: lyrical poem, ode) A variety of lyrical verse, usually consisting of twelve to seventeen baits (verses) in a monorhyme. In the first bait (matla) two hemi tiches (misra) are rhymed according to the pattern; ba, ca, da ... The concluding bait (maqta) usually mentions the poet's takhallus (poetic name). Ghazal took its final shape in the thirteenth to fourteenth century. As this genre developed ghazals turned more and more towards Eastern mysticism, the ideas of Sufism, philosophy and morality, in addition to the usual love themes. In contemporary poetry ghazal also looks at political and social themes. This genre is widespread in the poetry of the Middle East and South Asia.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: A.M. Mirzoyev, 'Rudaqi and the Evolution of Ghazal in the 10th-15th Centuries', Dushanbe, 1958 (in Russian); M.L. Reisner, 'The Evolution of the Classical