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  • wine bottle
    Persian literature
    / Religious poetry

    …is the idealization of the qalandar, a type of outlaw who defies all rules of good behaviour and abandons himself to drunkenness and debauchery. The term was adopted by dervishes who practiced a nonconformist way of life that rejected not only the world but also conventional piety, which they decried…

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    …is the idealization of the qalandar, a type of outlaw who defies all rules of good behaviour and abandons himself to drunkenness and debauchery. The term was adopted by dervishes who practiced a nonconformist way of life that rejected not only the world but also conventional piety, which they decried…

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