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روضه ششم / Sixth Rawza of Baharestan (On Poets and the Craft of Poetry)

The sixth rawza (garden) of Jami's Baharestan. Modeled on Saadi's Gulistan, the Baharestan is divided into eight rawzas, each blending prose anecdotes with verse around a theme. This sixth rawza gathers stories and epigrams about poets and the craft of poetry — praise (madh), satire (hija), plagiarism, and the fraught relationship between poets and their patrons. Sections such as 45 (the poet whose qasida is stitched from other divans), 46 (Farazdaq satirizing the stingy Khalid of Basra), and 47 (the learned man's retort about the smell of the privy) all belong to this rawza and are best studied as a thematic group under it rather than hanging directly off the whole collection.

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