Farhang-vārah-i khiyāl dar shiʻr-i ʻUnṣurī

This scholarly work by Farībā Farrukhī offers a comprehensive analysis of poetic imagery (khiyāl) in the works of ʻUnṣurī (Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad), the celebrated Poet Laureate of the court of Maḥmūd of Ghaznī. Recognised as a master of the qaṣidah, ʻUnṣurī introduced a logical, almost philosophical structure to Persian panegyric verse. Farrukhī's study, published by Intishārāt-i Farzānagān-i Dānishgāh in Tihrān, systematically catalogues the 'second term of the simile' (mushabbah bihi) found in the poet's divan, providing a frequency analysis of abstract and concrete elements such as nature, weapons, and courtly life. The volume serves as both a dictionary of imagery and a critical assessment of the intellectual style that distinguishes ʻUnṣurī from his predecessors like Rūdakī.