Bāzgasht-i Adabī (‘the Literary Return’), the name of a style of Persian literature and the designation for a period in the history of Persian literature in which poets and writers turned away from the Indian style (sabk-i Hindī) of writing poetry and prose, also known as the Iṣfahānī style, and returned to the ʿIrāqī and Khurāsānī style.
A Critical Appraisal
The prose of the Return engendered no hostile reaction from the authorities, but the Return in the fiel…