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===The Ginans and Qasidas===
{{Main|Ginans}}
The Ginans are [[Nizari]] religious texts. They are written in the form of poetry by [[Pir (Sufism)|Pir]]s to interpret the meanings of Quranic [[ayah|ayat]]. In comparison to Ginans, Ismāʿīlīs of other origins, such as Persians, Arabs, and Central Asians, have [[qasida]]s ({{langx|ar|قصيدة}}) written in Persian by missionaries such as [[Nasir Khusraw]] and [[Hasan bin Sabah]]. As van-Skyhawk notes, an important link was established between the ginānic and qaṣā'id traditions when, in 1961, the 49th Ismāʿīlī Imām termed [[Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai|ʿAllāmah Naṣīr al-Dīn Hunzai's]] [[Burushaski|Burushaskī]] qaṣā'id a "ginān book in [the] Hunza language".<ref>Van-Skyhawk, H. (2005). ''The Devotional Poems of ʿAllāmah Naṣīr al-Dīn Hunzai as Inter-Cultural Translations'' (p. 6). In ''Mitteilungen fuer Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte 17''(1), 305–316. Münster, Germany: Ugarit-Verlag.</ref>