Iranian Poets residing in India in the Tadkere-ye Latāyef-ol-xīyāl

Today studying and reviewing ancient poetry without referring to biographies and collection of poems (jongs) is an incomplete task. The value and significance of such works is not merely in the existence of newly found poems in them, but in their adding names of anonymous poets in the index of the history of literature. Latāyefol- xīyāl is one of the most important jongs of the epoch of the Safavids. This work has a special place among other jongs in terms of the number of poets and poems included in it. This article introduces the above jong and presents the biography of its compiler. Then the article elaborates on the life and poetry of the Iranian poets who resided in India and whose sample poems are included in the above work.