This article analyzes the formation and stages of development of the mushoara genre in the classical literature of the East, in particular, in the Arabic, Persian-Tajik and Uzbek literary environments, in a historical and literary context. It is highlighted with reasonable evidence that this genre, which arose in Arabic literature in the VI-VII centuries AD, developed as an independent artistic phenomenon in Persian-Tajik literature by the IX-XI centuries, and improved in close connection with the genres of classical poetry during the Samanid era. The study draws on the work of Davlatshah Samarkandiy "Tazkirat ush-shuaro" as an important source, and analyzes the examples of mushoara in it from the point of view of poetic, semantic and genre characteristics.

poetic competition, artistic thought, irony, semantics, socio-political context, literary process, Samanid era.

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