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The 34 pages that link to Ghazal, each with the reason it gives.

• Arabic poetryBroader topic: The ghazal channels intimate emotion through a long-standing Arabic form.

• Persian poetryBroader topic: Its compact couplets became a defining vehicle for Persian lyric poetry.

• QasidaCompared with: Unlike the qasida’s extended thematic arc, a ghazal typically comprises more autonomous couplets.

• RadifNarrower topic: The ghazal commonly uses a radif after the rhyme in its opening and closing lines.

• Sufi poetryRelated: Its compact couplets became a major form for expressing mystical desire.

• Urdu poetryBroader topic: Its independent couplets and refrain make it a defining Urdu poetic form.

• Asha BhosleRelated: Bhosle explored the form prominently in Umrao Jaan.

• Urdu literatureBroader topic: This couplet-based form became a defining mode of Urdu poetry.

• BhajanCompared with: Ghazals may express spiritual longing, but their poetic form and performance conventions differ from bhajans.

• Amir KhusrauRelated: Khusrau composed Persian ghazals within a major poetic form of his period.

• Mohammed RafiRelated: His recordings included ghazals, a more restrained setting than many of his film songs.

• Forugh FarrokhzadCompared with: Its formal conventions provide a contrast to the freer movement of her mature poems.

• GulzarRelated: The ghazal’s compressed imagery and emotional turns illuminate recurring features of his lyrics.

• Bahadur Shah ZafarRelated: Zafar wrote ghazals that gave personal expression to loss and exile.

• Hafez (Persian poet)Narrower topic: Hafez made this form the defining vehicle of his lyric poetry.

• Kazi Nazrul IslamRelated: Nazrul helped establish Bengali ghazal as a recognizable musical and poetic form.

• Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanRelated: The ghazal’s poetry and themes also appear in the wider musical world associated with Khan.

• Indo-Persian cultureRelated: The ghazal became a shared poetic form across Persian and South Asian languages.

• Javed AkhtarNarrower topic: Ghazal traditions inform the poetic language of many Hindi film lyrics he wrote.

• Abu NuwasRelated: His urban lyrics share the ghazal’s attention to desire while often favoring immediate pleasure.

• Mir Taqi MirNarrower topic: This is the poetic form most closely associated with Mir’s literary achievement.

• Nima YushijRelated: Its tightly patterned conventions help clarify the formal change Yushij proposed.

• Saadi ShiraziRelated: Saadi’s ghazals bring the lyric voice of his poetry into focus.

• Abida ParveenRelated: She performs ghazals alongside devotional poetry in several South Asian languages.

• Meena KumariRelated: Its lyrical conventions help frame the themes and language of her poetry.

• Mehdi HassanNarrower topic: Hassan made the ghazal’s independent verses cohere through musical phrasing.

• GhalibNarrower topic: Ghalib’s best-known Urdu poems use this form’s independent couplets to sustain shifting arguments.

• Jagjit SinghNarrower topic: His career made this form accessible to listeners beyond its established audience.

• Majrooh SultanpuriRelated: The ghazal tradition shaped the diction and imagery of his Urdu writing.

• Narayan GopalRelated: Ghazal-like lyricism and romantic themes inform parts of his song repertoire.

• Shahram NazeriRelated: Ghazals provide a major poetic form for the Persian texts Nazeri performs.

• Divan-i Shams-i TabriziBroader topic: Many of the Divan’s poems use this form to sustain shifting declarations of love.

• Farida KhanumNarrower topic: Khanum became especially celebrated for singing ghazals in Urdu.

• Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ahNarrower topic: Umar’s poems helped shape the courtship-focused strand of Arabic ghazal.