Fahlavīyāt
Fahlaviyat (), also spelled fahlavi (), was a designation for poetry composed in the local northwestern Iranian dialects and languages of the Fahla region, which comprised Isfahan, Ray, Hamadan, Mah Nahavand, and Azerbaijan, corresponding to the ancient region of Media. "Fahlaviyat" is an Arabicized form of the Persian word Pahlavi, which original meant Parthian, but now came to mean "heroic, old, ancient." "Fahlaviyat", which was descended from Median dialects, had been substantially impacted by the Persian language, and also had linguistic similarities with the Parthian language. The oldest "fahlaviyat" quatrain was supposedly written in the dialect of Nahavand, by a certain  Abu Abbas Nahavandi (died 942/43). Evidence indicates that the Persian Sufis of Baghdad sang popular lyrical quatrains during their "sama" ceremonies in the 9th-century. The language that they sang in were likely not Arabic, but local Iranian dialects. Poets such as Homam Tabrizi (died 1314/15) and Abd al-Qadir Maraghi (died 1435) wrote in "fahlaviyat". List of authors. The following are some authors whose works are recognized in the general genre of "fahlaviyat":