Gazel (Qəzəl) in Azerbaijani literature - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Heß, Michael R.
Leiden
Brill
(805 words)
The first Azerbaijani qəzəl s appear in the eighth/fourteenth or perhaps at the end of the seventh/thirteenth century, such as those written by Həsənoğlu (fl. seventh/thirteenth century). By then, the term qəzəl was already firmly established in its two main genres: the semantic (love poetry), and the formal (a genre of short əruz [əruz /Arabic ʿarūḍ] poetry with an "aa ba ca..." rhyme pattern). By this time qəzəl s had been considerably extended from their original erotic basis, demonstrated by the religio-philosophical themes in Həsənoğlu's