Kharabat (poetry)

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title: Kharabat (poetry)
text: Kharabat is a term in Persian poetry, sometimes used as a proverb. It has been suggested, as a possible etymological explanation, that the word was created as a combination of the two words kharab ("ruinous") and abad. In the words of Prof. Hamid Dabashi; "Persian literary historians have concurred that the word originally meant "house or tavern of ill repute" but was eventually appropriated by mystics to mean a place that they frequent by way of suspending all hypocritical pretense to piety (..
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