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elegiac poetry (marthiya; on Persian marthiya literature dedicated to the martyrs of Karbala and other Shiʿite sacred figures<ref>see Calmard, 1975, pp. 193 ff., 510 ff.; Clarke, pp. 13-28; Hanaway; and Haywood</ref> ) in Arabic and Persian about the [[Ahl al-Bayt]], particularly [[Hussain ibn Ali|Hussain]] and the [[Martyrs of Karbala|Karbala martyrs]], was increasingly composed by authors of both [[Shiʿism|Shiʿite]] and [[Sunnis|Sunnite]] persuasion. Under the Seljuqs (1038-1194), this devotional literature spread widely through storytellers. During this time, elegies (marathi) and eulogies ([[manaqeb]]) continued to be composed, in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, by learned theologians, poets, and popular storytellers.