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Abd al-Wasi Jabali's Bilingual Mastery of Arabic and Persian Verse (Dhu al-Lisanayn)

Jami singles out Abd al-Wasi Jabali as a complete master (فاضل کامل) who composed skilled verse in both Arabic (تازی) and Persian (فارسی) — the kind of poet later called ذواللسانین (dhu al-lisanayn, the two-tongued). Jami stresses that no one could adequately answer Jabali's celebrated qasida (matla: که دارد چون تو معشوقی نگار و چابک و دلبر), underscoring both its formal difficulty and Jabali's command of the qasida form. This dual-language command is what distinguishes Jabali among the 12th-century court poets Jami surveys in Rowze 7 of the Baharestan, and it is a recurring category in Persian literary history worth learning as a concept in its own right.

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