{{Short description|Collection of the poetry of any one poet}} {{Italic title}}[[File:Sauda kulliyat 1872.jpg|thumb|Cover of the 1872 translation of the works of Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda (1713–1781)]] A '''''kulliyyāt''''' (from Arabic: {{lang|ar|كلّيّات}} {{Transliteration|ar|kulliyyāt}}; {{langx|fa|کلیات}} {{Transliteration|fa|kolliyyât}}; {{langx|az|külliyyat}}; {{langx|ur|کلیات}}; {{langx|uz|kulliyat}}; {{lit|Anthology}}) is a collection of the poetry of any one poet.

Kulliyat is one of the principal collection forms of Urdu poetry. Taken literally, the term signifies a complete collection of one author's poems, but in practice it is also applied to any collection of poems of one type by an author.<ref name="introduction">{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urduhindilinks/bailey/000introduction.pdf |title=A History of Urdu literature by T. Grahame Bailey; ''Introduction''}}</ref>

==See also== *Persian literature *Azerbaijani literature *Urdu poetry

==References== <references/>

==External links== *[http://www.urdupoetry.com/poetryforms.html Urdu poetic forms] *[https://www.dawn.com/news/638614/controversy-over-poet-ali-haider danw.com]

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Category:Arabic and Central Asian poetics Category:Persian poetry Category:Azerbaijani poetry Category:Urdu-language poetry

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