Rubāʻīyātī az Nayshābūr: dū daftar-i shiʻr : rubāʻīʹhā va dū baytīʹhā

Gathered in two books of verse, this collection presents rubāʻīyāt (quatrains) and dū baytīʹhā (couplets) by Muḥammad Riz̤ā Shafīʻī Kadkanī, one of the most distinguished living scholars and poets of the Persian language. Rooted in the venerable quatrain tradition long associated with the city of Nayshābūr, home to Khayyām and ʻAṭṭār, these short, tightly wrought poems move between meditations on time, mortality, love, and the natural world, carrying forward a form perfected by classical masters while bearing the unmistakable voice and intellectual precision for which Shafīʻī Kadkanī is renowned as both poet and philologist. Alongside his celebrated scholarly work on Persian literary history and mysticism, Shafīʻī Kadkanī has long maintained a parallel career as a poet, and this volume gathers some of his most concentrated lyric writing, offering readers a compact yet resonant encounter with a living voice within the ancient tradition of Persian quatrain poetry.