In some of the earliest manuscripts of Sana’i’s (d. 1131) divan and ‘Attar’s (d. 1221) Mokhtar-Nameh, the term qalandariyat is applied to a group of poems that have a shared concern with a variety of different antinomian and transgressive figures, settings, and motifs. The central figure of the poetic world of the qalandariyat is the libertine “rogue” or “rascal” (qalandar/qallash/oubash/rend) and its poetic axis is the winehouse (kharabat/mey-khaneh)—a heterotopic space in which the poet, adopting the persona of “poet as rogue,” exhorts the readers to reject the pretenses of superficial Islamic piety in favor of a “true infidelity” (kufr-e haq?q?). Several prominent scholars of Persian poetry, however, have questioned whether or not the qalandariyat should be regarded as a generic category. Pace proponents of this view, I will argue in this presentation that the new computational mode of textual analysis called topic modeling corroborates the early manuscript evidence indicating that the monothematic forms of qalandariyat constituted a flexible thematic genre in early Persian poetry. At the methodological level, this study also will demonstrate the utility of topic modeling for the study of medieval Persian poetry and illustrate the various ways in which its results can be leveraged for macro-level computational textual analysis of Persian and Arabic poetry.