216:, intended to be read in informal, intimate settings. Her uncle, Abu Ishaq, loved literature and it is likely that he encouraged her to write poetry, as was customary for noble women in Persia. The introduction to her divan, written by Jahan herself, suggests that she wrote poetry as a means to leave something behind after her death, and to deal with her tumultuous life at court. She mentioned several rulers in her poems, like
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