Chahār maqāleh
work by Neẓāmī-ye ʿArūẕī
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The Chahār maqāleh (Four Discourses) is a work by the 12th-century Persian writer Nizāmī-ye ʿArūzī. It is not a maqāmah, which is an Arabic literary genre of witty, rhymed prose anecdotes about rogues and mountebanks. Instead, the Chahār maqāleh focuses on four important court functionaries: the secretary, the poet, the doctor, and the astrologer. This work is part of a broader tradition of Persian prose that often served utilitarian purposes, including scholarship, religion, and government affairs.12
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