A kulliyyāt (from Arabic: كلّيّات kulliyyāt; Persian: کلیات kolliyyât; Azerbaijani: külliyyat; Urdu: کلیات; Uzbek: kulliyat) is a collection of the poetry of any one poet.

Cover of the 1872 translation of the works of Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda (1713–1781)

Kulliyat is one of the principal collection forms of Urdu poetry. Taken literally, the term signifies a complete collection of one author's poems, but in practice it is also applied to any collection of poems of one type by an author.[1]

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  1. ^ "A History of Urdu literature by T. Grahame Bailey; Introduction" (PDF).
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