Collection Forms of Urdu Poetry
The principal collection forms of Urdu poetry are:
- Diwan, a collection of poems, chiefly gazals.
- Kulliyat, literally a complete collection of poems, but often applied to any collection containing poems of various kinds. Thus, Akbar Allahabadi published three kulliyats.
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