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https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screenshot-2017-12-28-16.53.58-e1514480114799.png624317The dominant attitude of the anti-clerical rhetoric in Persian poetry is permeated by criticism of judges, lawyers, aesthetics, spiritual advisors, and authority figures of that nature. This is one of the reasons that makes this poetry still relevant.