[1] It is traditionally considered to characterise the first period of New Persian poetry, running from the ninth century CE into the second half of the twelfth.
It is characterized by its plain poetic technique, concrete images and metaphors, and some archaic linguistic features.
[2] The Khurāsānī period was succeeded by the sabk-i ‘Irāqī ('style of Iraq'), with its greater use of Arabisms, more elaborate metaphors and imagery, and turn towards spiritualism.
[4] The style saw a return to popularity with the so-called literary revival (bazgasht-e adabi) of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
[7] The first is a description of a palace from Qaṣīda 31 by Farrukhī Sistānī, writing in the earlier eleventh century.